Information

governments // leaders, party composition (global, 1919–2008)

• parties in government, PMs, presidents

http://www.chisols.org

main dataset (main) — popular datasets linked with Party Facts

first imported on 5 August 2017 and last updated on 16 March 2021

Reference

Mattes, Michaela, Brett Ashley Leeds, and Naoko Matsumura. 2016. “Measuring Change in Source of Leader Support: The CHISOLS Dataset.” Journal of Peace Research 53(2): 259–67.

Import "readme.txt"

CHISOLS

Source

• Mattes, Michaela, Brett Ashley Leeds, and Naoko Matsumura. 2016. “Measuring Change in Source of Leader Support: The CHISOLS Dataset.” Journal of Peace Research 53(2): 259–67. — chisols.org

Import

• party information extracted with chisols-data.R

Comments

• chisols-data.R and chisols-data-stryr.R create party level datasets
• party names provided in CHISOLS country narratives
• some party names extracted with a script from country narratives initially

Todo later

• clean-up duplicates from different short names, alliances and spelling errors
• update and complete Google Drive table party names from country narratives