TY - JOUR
T1 - Who governs Europe? A new historical dataset on governments and party systems since 1848
AU - Casal Bértoa, Fernando
AU - Enyedi, Zsolt
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, European Consortium for Political Research.
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Comprising 172 years of European history (from 1848 to 2020), the Who governs dataset provides comprehensive and highly detailed information on the partisan composition of European governments, matching these data with information on those aspects of party politics that can either help to understand the dynamics of the governmental arena or are under the direct influence of the composition of governments. Most of the variables represent fundamental and well-established dimensions of party politics, such as the number of new parties or the fragmentation of the party systems, but some, most importantly party system closure, are more novel. Variables have been designed so that they can be applied to a maximum number of cases across time. Currently the dataset includes 68 different historical democratic periods, 753 elections, and more than 1817 parties and 1586 cases of government formation.
AB - Comprising 172 years of European history (from 1848 to 2020), the Who governs dataset provides comprehensive and highly detailed information on the partisan composition of European governments, matching these data with information on those aspects of party politics that can either help to understand the dynamics of the governmental arena or are under the direct influence of the composition of governments. Most of the variables represent fundamental and well-established dimensions of party politics, such as the number of new parties or the fragmentation of the party systems, but some, most importantly party system closure, are more novel. Variables have been designed so that they can be applied to a maximum number of cases across time. Currently the dataset includes 68 different historical democratic periods, 753 elections, and more than 1817 parties and 1586 cases of government formation.
KW - Dataset
KW - Elections
KW - Europe
KW - Governments
KW - Institutionalization
KW - Party systems
KW - Political parties
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108502032&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1057/s41304-021-00342-w
DO - 10.1057/s41304-021-00342-w
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108502032
SN - 1680-4333
VL - 21
SP - 150
EP - 164
JO - European Political Science
JF - European Political Science
IS - 1
ER -