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.
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“This book covering the full life-cycle of coalitions from the formation of party alliances before elections to coalition formation after elections (or in the sitting parliament), portfolio distribution among the coalition parties, governing and policy-making when parties work together in office, and the stages that eventually lead to government termination.“
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Corrected/updated in December 2020 with independent/non-partisan ministers (please see the codebook for details.)
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Coalition government among different political parties is the way most European democracies are governed. Traditionally, the study of coalition politics has been focused on Western Europe. Coalition governance in Central Eastern Europe brings the study of the full coalition life-cycle to a region that has undergone tremendous political transformation, but which has not been studied from this perspective. The volume covers Bulgaria, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
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