Figures & data
Figure 1. Cumulative adoption of socially oriented ministries. (a) Education, Stats/Info, Labor, Welfare, Health. Note: Over this time period, the number of countries in the world also expands. To account for this, also captures similar trends for each ministry type, measured as the proportion of countries that have adopted each ministry at specific time points. (b) Higher education, Family affairs, Children, Environment, Women, Human rights.
![Figure 1. Cumulative adoption of socially oriented ministries. (a) Education, Stats/Info, Labor, Welfare, Health. Note: Over this time period, the number of countries in the world also expands. To account for this, Table 1 also captures similar trends for each ministry type, measured as the proportion of countries that have adopted each ministry at specific time points. (b) Higher education, Family affairs, Children, Environment, Women, Human rights.](/cms/asset/2326ff65-bac2-4a00-921f-be99bdd231de/recp_a_2302614_f0001_oc.jpg)
Table 1. Percentage of countries with particular social ministries, by year.
Table 2a. Constant-rate event history analyses of ministry adoption.
Table 2b. Constant-rate event history analyses of ministry adoption.
Appendix A2. Pearson’s correlation coefficients of ministry adoption, year 2000 (n = 189).
Appendix A3. Descriptive statistics of independent and control variables (all years pooled).
Appendix A4. Cronbach's alpha scores for global indices (all years pooled).