Information

governments // leaders, ministers (global, 1966–2016)

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000490

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

first imported on 28 December 2020 and last updated on 12 March 2026

Reference

Nyrup, Jacob, and Stuart Bramwell. 2020. Who Governs? A New Global Dataset on Members of Cabinets. American Political Science Review. 1-9. FirstView. doi: 10.1017/S0003055420000490

Import "readme.txt"

WhoGov

Source

• Nyrup, Jacob, and Stuart Bramwell. 2020. Who Governs? A New Global Dataset on Members of Cabinets. American Political Science Review. 114(4): 1366–74. doi: 10.1017/S0003055420000490

• https://politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/whogov-dataset/

Import

• imports
• initial import — all WhoGov data and automatic linking during import in PF-Web
• final import — parties with 3 ministers and those linked automatically before
• encoding issues
• The WhoGov dataset file contains multiple encoding issues
• Fields with problematic encodings are replaced with NA

Variables

• country_short -- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 [adjusted]
• name_short -- party abbreviation based on party (see whogov.R)
• name_english -- party name english based on party_english (see whogov.R)
• name -- party name based on party_otherlanguage (see whogov.R)
• year_first -- first dataset appearance of party
• year_last -- last dataset appearance of party
• n -- number of ministers
• minister_first -- first minister of the party
• party -- party abbreviation as in dataset
• party_id -- country_isocode-party (see whogov.R)
• partyfacts_id -- partyfacts_id of the party (already linked to in Party Facts)