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.

Corrected/updated in December 2020 with independent/non-partisan ministers (please see the codebook for details.)

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.