{"id":3118,"date":"2023-01-08T20:01:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/repdem.org\/?page_id=3118"},"modified":"2024-10-21T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T13:41:18","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/repdem.org\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3118\" class=\"elementor elementor-3118\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-96c8f7c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"96c8f7c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-20bb34c\" data-id=\"20bb34c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0bab246 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0bab246\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>About <strong>REPDEM<\/strong><\/h3><p>The<strong>\u00a0Representative Democracy Data Archive\u00a0 (REPDEM)<\/strong>\u00a0project is hosted by the Political Science Department, Ume\u00e5 University in Sweden.<\/p><p>The archive contains information on governments, parliaments and political parties for (mainly European) parliamentary democracies. This information has been gathered in collaboration with a broad network of country experts, but also via a comprehensive review of available research.<\/p><p>The database contains information on all governments since 1945 \u2013 coalitions, one-party governments and \u201cofficial governments\u201d.\u00a0The information can, for example, be used for studies of political coalitions and minority governments. Still, it can also be linked to studies of how political opinions and the political system affect a range of social areas.\u00a0The Open Access database has been the basis for extensive research and scientific publications.<\/p><p>While there exists some alternative data sources for the party composition of governments,\u00a0<strong>the database contains unique data on, for example:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li><strong><em>Government formation\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>e.<\/em>g., pre-electoral coalitions, support parties, bargaining duration, and other information concerning the bargaining over government between political parties.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li><strong><em>Coalition governance<\/em><\/strong>, e.g., coalition agreements, conflict management mechanisms, organization of ministries, etc.<\/li><li><strong><em>Government termination<\/em><\/strong>, e.g., government duration, the reason for government terminations and the events that caused the termination, etc.<\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Since 2017, the database has been included in the infrastructure initiative \u2013 REPDEM (Representative Democracy) prioritised by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Ume\u00e5 University, and since 2020 in the national infrastructure project\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.demscore.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DEMSCORE<\/a><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d0a1601 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d0a1601\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-829c572\" data-id=\"829c572\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27e4c5a elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27e4c5a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>REPDEM \u2013 a short history<\/strong><\/h3><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The REPDEM builds on various data collection efforts since 1997, and has resulted in several volumes that discuss, summarise and contextualise the data.\u00a0<\/span>Our data archive traces its origins to the literature inspired by William H. Riker\u2019s (1962),\u00a0<em>The theory of political coalitions<\/em>, and the empirical applications that has followed in this tradition. The comparative data collection began with an effort by Wolfgang C. Muller and Kaare Strom (1997) to organize a volume on West European patterns of coalition government. This volume in German was also one of the very first that took a dynamic approach to coalition governments in the sense that it investigated several phases in the \u201clife cycle\u201d of cabinets and coalitions: formation bargaining, formation duration, ministerial portfolio distribution, the period in power (governance), as well as cabinet duration and termination. An updated version of this book was later (2000) published by Oxford University Press. This was followed by a volume by Str\u00f8m, M\u00fcller, &amp; Bergman (2003), which focused on the institutional design of West European parliamentary democracies from a delegation and accountability perspective. From this effort we have a continued to measure and to include the different institutional designs that have an impact on party politics and coalition politics in the countries that we include in our data archive.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later we extended the data collection to include also Central Eastern Europe (2019), we updated the data on Western Europe by a volume edited by Bergman, B\u00e4ck, &amp; Hellstr\u00f6m (2021) and in so doing we further highlighted the governance phase which has been the most under-researched of the different phases in the coalition lifecycle. Our latest comparative data collection was summarized in Bergman, Ilonszki, &amp; Hellstr\u00f6m (2024) and further included data that makes possible comparisons within and between the regions of Western and Central Eastern Europe.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From 2015 we have been working on building REPDEM into a collaborative national infrastructure. In 2020 this resulted in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/demscore.se\/\">DEMSCORE<\/a>, a national data infrastructure for contextual data. Currently we are working on the first major data collection of government coalitions and coalition governance in parliamentary democracies outside of Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-43dffaa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"43dffaa\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d4c21ab\" data-id=\"d4c21ab\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-02b850d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"02b850d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4870 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/repdem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/books-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/repdem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/books-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/repdem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/books-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/repdem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/books.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>Bergman, Torbj\u00f6rn, Gabriella Ilonszki, and Johan Hellstr\u00f6m, eds. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">(2024) <i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003328483\">Coalition Politics in Central Eastern Europe: Governing in Times of Crisis<\/a><\/i>. <\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">London: Taylor &amp; Francis.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Bergman, Torbj\u00f6rn, Hanna B\u00e4ck, and Johan Hellstr\u00f6m, eds. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">(2021) <i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/oso\/9780198868484.001.0001\">Coalition Governance in Western Europe<\/a><\/i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Bergman, Torbj\u00f6rn, Gabriella Ilonszki, and Wolfgang C. M\u00fcller, eds. (2019) <\/span><i style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\"><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/coalition-governance-in-central-eastern-europe-9780198844372?cc=se&amp;lang=en&amp;\">Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe<\/a><\/i><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Str\u00f8m, Kaare, M\u00fcller, Wolfgang C. and Bergman, Torbj\u00f6rn eds. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">(2008) <i><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/cabinets-and-coalition-bargaining-9780199587490?cc=se&amp;lang=en&amp;\">Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining: The Democratic Life Cycle in Western Europe<\/a><\/i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Paperback 2010).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Str\u00f8m, Kaare, M\u00fcller, Wolfgang C. and Bergman, Torbj\u00f6rn eds. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">(2003<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/book\/36207\">) <i>Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies<\/i><\/a>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Paperback 2006).<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">M\u00fcller, Wolfgang C. and Kaare Str\u00f8m, eds. (2000) <i><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/coalition-governments-in-western-europe-9780198297611?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\">Coalition Governments in Western Europe<\/a><\/i>. <\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/span><\/p><p>M\u00fcller, Wolfgang C. and Kaare Str\u00f8m, eds, (1997) K<em>oalitionsregierungen in Westeuropa: Bildung, Arbeits weise und Beendigung<\/em>. Vienna: Signum.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About REPDEM The\u00a0Representative Democracy Data Archive\u00a0 (REPDEM)\u00a0project is hosted by the Political Science Department, Ume\u00e5 University in Sweden. 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