Parliament and government composition database

Project description

ParlGov is a new data infrastructure for political science. It contains data on elections and governments for all EU and most OECD members from 1945 until today. The database combines approximately 1400 parties, 640 elections (5500 results), and 890 governments (2100 cabinet parties). — Read more

ParlGov version

• Parlgov 11/07 – 26 July 2011 — stable version

Quick links

• Introduction (pdf, 150kb) – Credits
• Data tables — Parties – Elections – Cabinets
• Examples — Party (Deu SPD) – Election (Aut 1990) – Election EP (Gbr 1989) – Cabinet (Jpn 2009)

Project leaders

• Holger Döring and Philip Manow
• University of Bremen – Centre for Social Policy Research (ZeS)

References

• ParlGov database (Döring and Manow 2011)
• Döring, Holger and Philip Manow. 2011. Parliament and government composition database (ParlGov): An infrastructure for empirical information on parties, elections and governments in modern democracies. Version 11/07 – 26 July 2011.