The yearly (periodized) datasets previously included additional rows for governments that both formed and dissolved within the same year. This issue has now been corrected as of 28 April 2026. All changes are documented in detail in the change log.
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The Department of Political Science, Umeå University. Sweden is looking for 1-2 PhD students. As a PhD student, you may have a project related to the REPDEM within the Research Group on Political Institutions and Political Parties. Please join us at REPDEM or spread the word! The deadline for applications is 31 January 2026. More […]
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We are happy to announce a major data release that provides detailed information on important aspects of government formation, coalition governance, and government termination in 28 European countries until 2022.
The dataset combines and expands data that was collected for Coalition Politics in Central Eastern Europe (2024), Coalition Governance in Western Europe (2021), and Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe (2019).
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The Historical Cabinets (H-CAB) dataset is a historical extension of (some of) the data on governments available at REPDEM and covers cabinets formed between 1919 and 1945 in 12 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Netherland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom).
The H-CAB dataset provides data on dates of cabinet formation and dissolution, along with data on the cabinet party composition, allowing for analysis of cabinet formation and duration during the interwar period.
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Recent changes (September 2024) This release fixes a few coding errors. All changes are documented in detail in the change log. Below is a summary: The median party on the second policy dimension was incorrect for some elections in Western Europe and Croatia. A few parties were incorrectly coded as having seats in parliament that […]
Read More Recent changes (September 2024) This release fixes a few coding errors. All changes are documented in detail in the change log. Below is a summary: The median party on the second policy dimension was incorrect for some elections in Western Europe and Croatia. A few parties were incorrectly coded as having seats in parliament that […]
Read More Recent changes (June 2024) Since the March release, there have been some minor changes and additions to the main datasets. All changes are documented in detail in the change log. Below is a summary: The “ideological polarization” variables have been updated to rectify a previous coding error A new new variable, “unique_id”, has been created […]
Read More Recent changes (March 2024) Some minor errors in the data has been corrected: The type of new government (newegov_type) variable has been updated and now includes non-partisan governments. Additional minor updates and corrections.
Read More Recent changes (February 2024) Since the December release there has been some minor changes and additions to the main datasets: The ‘Type of government’- variable and the variable ‘cab_mwc’ corrected in the cabinet-level datasets. Seats-variables moved to the end of datasets (i.e., seats_party X, upper_seats_party X). Preference-variables and party codes for each government member added […]
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