Party Government in Europe Database (PAGED) was an infrastructure project that built on the previous international and comparative projects on European parliamentary democracy that are available here on REPDEM and concern key issues of today’s representative democracy namely delegation, accountability, government formation, governance and government dissolution. The data that these projects collected was updated and partially revised (for example, in able to satisfactory be able to study of government dissolution), as well as providing several alternative datasets (i.e. traditional cabinet level data; “potential coalition” data; yearly and quarterly and monthly data combined with economic indicators and public opinion data). This will enable new comparative studies of representative democracy, its challenges and possible room for reforms. The update and expansion of these datasets were made by the project participants, as well as using “country experts”, i.e. colleagues around Europe between 2016 and 2021. The first completed datasets was released during 2021 and 2022, and the most updated versions can be found under Current Main datasets.
The research project was financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the period 2016-2021.
Participants
PAGED was led by three senior researchers, but also had a small supporting team with a database manager and a project coordinator. However, much of the data was collected by our many experts on coalition politics in their respective country (see below).
Project leaders
Johan Hellström, Umeå University (PI)
Torbjörn Bergman, Umeå University (Co-PI)
Hanna Bäck, Lund University (Co-PI)
Data manager
Jonas Lindahl, Umeå University
Project coordinator
Linn Antonsson, Umeå University
Country experts
Austria
Wolfgang C. Müller, University of Vienna
Belgium
Lieven De Winter, University of Louvain
Patrick Dumont, The Australian National University
Bulgaria
Dobrinka Kostova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Croatia
Dario Nikić Čakar, Zagreb University
Czech Republic
Petra Guasti, Czech Academy of Sciences
Zdenka Mansfeldova, Czech Academy of Sciences
Denmark
Flemming Juul Christiansen, Roskilde School of Governance
Estonia
Tõnis Saarts, Tallinn University
Georg Sootla, Tallinn University
Finland
Tapio Raunio, Tampere University
France
Isabelle Guinaudeau, Centre Emile Durkheim
Simon Persico, Laboratoire Pacte
Germany
Marc Debus, University of Mannheim, MZES
Holger Döring, University of Bremen
Alejandro Ecker, Heidelberg University
Greece
Myrto Tsakatika, University of Glasgow
Hungary
Gabriella Ilonszki, Corvinus University of Budapest
Éva Ványi, Corvinus University of Budapest
Iceland
Indriði H. Indriðason, University of California, Riverside
Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, University of Iceland
Ireland
Paul Mitchell, London School of Economics
Italy
Francesco Zucchini, University of Milan
Andrea Pedrazzani, University of Milan
Lithuania
Irmina Matonytė, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
Ieva Gajauskaitė, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
Latvia
Jānis Ikstens, Riga Graduate School of Law
The Netherlands
Tom Louwerse, Leiden University
Arco Timmermanns, Leiden University
Norway
Torill Stavenes, University of Exeter
Kaare W. Strøm, The University of California, San Diego
Poland
Marzena Cichosz, University of Wroclaw
Joanna Kozierska, University of Wroclaw
Portugal
Patrícia Calca, CIES-ISCTE
Romania
Veronica Anghel, European University Institute, SAIS – Johns Hopkins
Slovakia
Branislav Dolný, Comenius University in Bratislava
Slovenia
Alenka Krašovec, University of Ljubljana
Tomaž Krpič, University of Ljubljana
Spain
Bonnie N. Field, Bentley University
Sweden
Johan Hellström, Umeå University
Jonas Lindahl, Umeå University
The United Kingdom
Nick Barlow, Queen Mary University of London
Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London
The first completed the datasets was releasad during 2021 and 2022 and is achieved here. Updates of the PAGED data constitutes our main data and can found under Current Main datasets.