Variable: National Elections for the Legislature

QoG Code: (iaep_nel)


Dataset: Institutions and Elections Project Data

Description:

Does the country hold national elections for the legislature We consider national elections to involve subjecting the members of the legislature to some form of popular plebiscite. While seats may be divided into districts, we consider national elections to occur when district-wide elections are organized at the national level.

  1. No
  2. Yes

Source: IAEP (Wig et al., 2015)

Type of variable: Binary

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-11-23
Last updated by source: 2015-05-20


Categories:

Political Parties and Elections


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OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 175
OECD time-series: 38


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This variable has information from the year 1960 to the year 2012