Data source: Duane Swank
The dataset captures characteristics of political parties in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, West Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Greece, Portugal, and Spain between 1950 to 2011.
This dataset uses the following categories for parties: Left: communist; socialist, social democratic, and labor; and other various left-wing parties (e.g., left-libertarian parties); Right: far-right (e.g., neo-fascist, right-wing populist), classical liberal, Conservative Christian Democratic, and other various right-wing parties; Centrist Christian Democratic (Centrist CD): non-conservative Catholic parties; Secular Center (Secular Cent): non-catholic parties of the center. The data set also includes a total Christian Democratic party category and all variables for Radical Right-Wing Populist and Left-Libertarian parties.
When using this dataset, please cite as:
(Swank, 2018)
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sw_cccd
Centrist Christian Democratic cabinet portfolios as a percent of all cabinet portfolios.
sw_ccd
Total Christian Democratic party cabinet portfolios as a percent of all cabinet net portfolios.
sw_cce
Center party cabinet portfolios as a percent of all portfolios.
sw_cl
Left party cabinet portfolios as a percent of all cabinet portfolios.
sw_cll
Percentage of cabinet portfolios in national government held by left libertarian (''new left'') parties.
sw_cr
Right party cabinet portfolios as a percent of all cabinet portfolios.
sw_crwp
Percentage of cabinet portfolios in national government held by right-wing populist parties.
sw_ey
Election Year. Dummy variable coded 1 for years in which elections occurred; otherwise, 0.
sw_gccd
Centrist Christian Democratic governing party seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_gcd
Total Christian Democratic governing party seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_gce
Center governing party seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_gl
Left governing party seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_gll
Left libertarian governing party seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_gr
Right governing party seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_grwp
Right-wing populist governing party seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_lccd
Centrist Christian Democratic party seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_lcd
Total Christian Democratic party seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_lce
Center party seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_ll
Left party legislative seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_lll
Percentage of seats (lower chamber) for left-libertarian parties and various miscellaneous works.
sw_lr
Right party legislative seats as a percent of all legislative seats.
sw_lrwp
Percentage of seats in lower chamber of national parliament held by right wing populist parties.
sw_vccd
Centrist Christian Democratic party votes as a percent of all votes.
sw_vcd
Total Christian Democratic party votes as a percent of all votes.
sw_vll
Percentage of votes (lower chamber) for left-libertarian parties.
sw_vrwp
Percentage of national vote for right-wing populist parties in elections to lower chamber.