Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Jan Teorell
- Lund University, Department of Political Science
Description
Purpose:
The aim of this research project is to describe and explain how and why corrupt electoral practices were abolished in established democracies.
Language
Swedish
Research principal
Data contains personal data
No
Unit of analysis
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
Constituency
Highest geographic unit
National area (NUTS2)
Research area
Elections, HISTORY
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science, History
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Teorell, J. (2012). Omval och andra omtagningar under 300 år. In L. Berg & H. Oscarsson (ed.), Omstritt omval (p. 39-54). Gothenburg: SOM-institutet.
Full text
Teorell, J. (2013). Varför är valfusk så ovanligt i Sverige?. In Statsvetenskapens frågor. (p. 75-83). Lund: Studentlitteratur.
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Associated documentation
Description
This dataset is made up of an MS-Excel file containing information regarding election related legal cases in Sweden between the years of 1713 and 1869. Currently data is only available in Swedish and only presented in this .xcl-format.Photo documentation and transcription of old texts.
Version 1.0
https://doi.org/10.5878/002721
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Data format / data structure
Still image
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Jan Teorell
- Lund University, Department of Political Science
Keywords
criminal courts, constituencies, political corruption, political history, appeals (law), 18th century, 19th century
Time period(s) investigated
1713 – 1869
Collection methodology
Review of relevant material in the Swedish National Archives
Variables
90
Associated documentation
Description
This dataset contains 12296 photographies of election related legal cases in Sweden through the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The photos are in TIFF-format and depict hand written texts in books and on archive cards, photographed at the National Archives. Example images can be found in the documentations tab above.Version 1.0
https://doi.org/10.5878/002722
Citation
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Data format / data structure
Still image
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Jan Teorell
- Lund University, Department of Political Science
Keywords
photography, 18th century, 19th century, texts, paleography, manuscript, handwriting, cursive, kurrent
Time period(s) investigated
1713 – 1869
Collection methodology
Review of relevant material in the Swedish National Archives