Summary information
Study title
The Comparative Parliamentary Democracy Data Archive
Creator
Bergman, Torbjörn (Department of Political Science, Umeå University)
Strøm, Kaare (The Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego)
Müller, Wolfgang (Department of Government, University of Vienna)
Study number / PID
snd0895-1-1.0 (SND)
https://doi.org/10.5878/002571 (DOI)
Data access
Open
Series
Not available
Abstract
The Comparative Parliamentary Democracy Data Archive data set consist of cabinet-level data of 17 Western European democracies for post-WWII cabinets through January 1, 1999. All together, a total of 424 coalitions, single party and non-partisan cabinets are included. Data for Greece, Portugal and Spain exist only after their democratizations in the 1970s, while data on France is limited to the Fifth Republic beginning in 1959. For the purposes of our data set, it can be said that the world "froze" on January 1, 1999. The last observation in each country is coded on the basis on the information that was available on that day.
Purpose:
The Comparative Parliamentary Democracy project examines West European parliamentary politics from a principal–agent perspective.
The ZIP file consist sav files (for SPSS) and documentation in pdf format (codebooks).
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Time dimension
Cross-section
Time series
Analysis unit
Organization/Institution
Universe
424 cabinets (coalitions, single and non-partisan)
Sampling procedure
Not availableKind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Not availableFunding information
Funder
Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
Grant number
1996-0801
Access
Publisher
Swedish National Data Service
Publication year
2011
Terms of data access
Access to data through SND. Data are freely accessible.
Related publications
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