European Representative Democracy Data Archive

SND-ID: EXT 0146

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Staffan Andersson - Linnaeus University, Department of Political Science

Svante Ersson - Umeå University, Department of Political Science

Torbjörn Bergman - Umeå University, Department of Political Science

Description

The European Representative Democracy data archive consists of cabinet-level data for 29 European democracies in post-WWII Europe. For each country it includes data for the cabinets that have formed after the introduction of the current democratic regime of parliamentary democracy (for Cyprus representative democracy). Included are cabinets that have formed before or on December 31 2010. Altogether, a total of 640 cabinets- -coalitions, single party and non-partisan- are included.

Purpose:

The purpose of the data archive project is to rectify a lack of comparable comprehensive data on the relation between citizens' and central actors of representative democracy's views of democratic values and attitudes, and systematic information on central political actors and the institutions in which they exist.
Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Umeå University

Responsible department/unit

School of social sciences, political science

Funding

  • Funding agency: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
  • Funding agency's reference number: In2007-0149:1-E
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Population

640 cabinets (coalitions, single and non-partisan)

Time period(s) investigated

1940 – 2010

Geographic coverage

Lowest geographic unit

Country

Highest geographic unit

Country

Publications

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Nyblade, Benjamin (2013). ”Government formation in parliamentary democracies”, in Müller, Wolfgang C. and Hanne Marthe Narud, (eds.) Party governance and party democracy. New York: Springer

Müller, Wolfgang C., ‘Governments and Bureaucracies’ in Daniele Caramani (ed.), Comparative Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2014, pp. 131-149.

Bergman, Torbjörn, Alejandro Ecker, and Wolfgang C. Müller. "How Parties Govern: Political Parties and the Internal Organization of Government." in Müller, Wolfgang C. and Hanne Marthe Narud, (eds.) Party governance and party democracy. New York: Springer. 33-50.

Bergman, Torbjörn, and Johan Hellström. "Country-specific configurations and constants in cross-national variable analysis." The 42nd ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, 10-15 April 2014, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain: Paper prepared for the workshop on the evolution of parliamentarism and its political consequences. 2014.

Mölder, Martin. (2014) ”From Ideological Distance to Programmatic Overlap: A Non-Spatial Measure of Party Policy Difference.” ECPR General Conference in Glasgow, 3-6 September 2014.

Bergman, Torbjörn, Svante Ersson, and Johan Hellström. "Government formation and breakdown in Western and Central Eastern Europe." Comparative European Politics (2013).

Benoit, Kenneth and Thomas Däubler (2014). "Putting Text in Context: How to Estimate Better Left-Right Positions by Scaling Party Manifesto Data using Item Response Theory." Prepared for the “Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts” Conference, May 15-16, 2014, Berlin.

Ecker, Alejandro, Konstantin Glinitzer, and Thomas M. Meyer. "Corruption performance voting and the electoral context." European Political Science Review: 1-22.

Saalfeld, Thomas. "Executive-legislative relations in Europe." Magone, José M., ed. Routledge Handbook of European Politics (2014): 346.

Andersson, Staffan (2015). “Storbritannien”, in Anckar, Carsten and Thomas Denk (2015). Komparativ politik: nio politiska system, Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Heller, Maiko Isabelle (2013). ”Context matters: How outside opinions affect the manifestation of common-pool problems in government spending”. EPSA 2013 Annual General Conference Paper 425.

Hübscher, Evelyne and Thomas Sattler, "Fiscal Consolidation Under Electoral Risk" (July 23, 2014).

Döring, Holger and Schwander, Hanna (forthcoming). "Revisiting the left cabinet share: How to measure the partisan profile of governments in welfare state research".
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Mölder, Martin. (2014) "Coherence of Coalition Governments Across Types of Parliamentarism." 42nd ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops in Salamanca, Spain 10-15 April 2014.

Schleiter, Petra, and Tavits, Margit. ”The Electoral Benefits of Opportunistic Election Timing” (2014). Working Paper, University of Oxford.

Laver, Michael and Kenneth Benoit (2014). "The Basic Arithmetic of Legislative Decisions." American Journal of Political Science

Ausderan, Jacob Thomas, ”International Conflict and the Strategic Selection of Foreign Policy Advisors” (2013). Diss. The Florida State University.
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Hübscher, Evelyne. ”The politics of fiscal consolidation revisited”. Journal of Public Policy, doi:10.1017/S0143814X15000057.

Jenny, Marcelo, Müller, Wolfgang C., Bradbury, Jonathan, Eder, Nikolaus and Ilonszki, Gabriella (2014). ”MPs' inter-party contacts and the operation of party democracy”, in Deschouwer, Kris & Depauw, Sam (eds.) Representing the people: A survey among members of statewide and sub-state parliaments. New York: Oxford University Press.

Saalfeld, Thomas (2013). ”Economic Performance, Political Institutions and Cabinet Durability in 28 European Parliamentary Democracies, 1945-2011”, in Müller, Wolfgang C. & Hanne Marthe Narud, (eds.) Party governance and party democracy. New York: Springer

Buzogány, Aron and Sabine Kropp, (2013). ”Koalitionen von Parteien”, in Niedermeyer, Oskar (ed.) Handbuch partaienforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien.

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Contact

Torbjörn Bergman

torbjorn.bergman@umu.se

Dataset
European Representative Democracy Data Archive

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Staffan Andersson - Linnaeus University, Department of Political Science

Svante Ersson - Umeå University, Department of Political Science

Torbjörn Bergman - Umeå University, Department of Political Science

Data collection

  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2007–ongoing
  • Source of the data: Registers/Records/Accounts

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Contact for questions about the data

Torbjörn Bergman

torbjorn.bergman@umu.se

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Published: 2015-03-10
Last updated: 2019-11-13