Data source: Tatu Vanhanen
The data contain three different variables, created by Tatu Vanhanen. The variables in question are political competition, political participation and the index of democratization.
When using this dataset, please cite as:
(Vanhanen, 2019)
(Finnish Social Science Data
Archive [producer and distributor], 2021)
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van_comp
The competition variable portrays the electoral success of smaller parties, that is, the percentage of votes gained by the smaller parties in parliamentary and/or presidential elections. The variable ...
van_index
The index of democratization is formed by multiplying the competition and the participation variables and then dividing the outcome by 100.
van_part
The political participation variable portrays the voting turnout in each election, and is calculated as the percentage of the total population who actually voted in the election. In the case of indire ...