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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]