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).

We are happy to announce the data release Party Government in Europe Database (PAGED) –  Basic dataset.

This comparative dataset builds on previous data collection projects on REPDEM and provide an in-house update of much of the data to mid-2023.

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.

Party Government in Europe Database (PAGED) is a research infrastructure project that aims to build a state-of-the-art database for comparative coalition research on political institutions, political parties, parliaments and governments.

This infrastructure project builds on the previous international and comparative projects on European parliamentary democracy that are available here on REPDEM – The Representative Democracy Data Archive and concern key issues of today s representative democracy namely delegation, accountability, government formation, governance and government dissolution.

We are happy to announce the second data release for the project Party Government in Europe Database (PAGED). This comparative dataset combines the datasets that was collected for Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe (2020), edited by Torbjörn Bergman, Gabriella Ilonszki, and Wolfgang C. Müller, and Coalition Governance in Western Europe (2021), edited by Torbjörn Bergman, Hanna Bäck, and Johan Hellström.

We are happy to announce the first data release for the project Party Government in Europe Database (PAGED). The first data release covers 16 West European countries and Croatia for the period 1945–2019.

The data were collected for the volume Coalition Governance in Western Europe.