Variable: Electoral Volatility in the EP - Parties below 1%

QoG Code: (evep_othv)


Dataset: Dataset of Electoral Volatility in the European Parliament elections since 1979

Description:

Electoral volatility in the European Parliament, caused by vote switching between parties falling below 1% of the national share in both the elections at time t and t+1. It is important to clarify that this category is not computed by aggregating the scores of each party falling below 1% and then comparing the overall sum at time t and t+1. Conversely, each party's volatility is counted separately - up to a specification of 0.1% - and then added to the calculation of evep_othv. This choice has been made to avoid underestimation of Total Volatility but at the same time to maintain a distinction between parties above 1% and parties below 1% for the calculation of the two components of evep_regv and evep_altv.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-10-20
Last updated by source: 2019-06-22


Categories:

Political Parties and Elections


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Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 28
Standard time-series: 29


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