Variable: Alignment Lower/Upper Legislative Chamber

QoG Code: (h_alignl1l2)


Dataset: Political Constraint Index (POLCON) Dataset

Description:

Dummy variable indicating alignment between the legislative chambers, coded 1 when the same party or a coalition of parties (when available) control a majority in both legislative chambers.

Type of variable: Binary

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-11-24
Last updated by source: 2022-10-14


Categories:

Political Parties and Elections


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Standard Cross-section - 2023 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

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Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 66


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This variable has information from the year 1946 to the year 2016