Tiers allocated in Parallel

QoG code: jw_parallel

Coded 1 if multiple tiers are elected in parallel fashion, 0 when they are elected in (at least some-what) compensatory fashion. Is coded only when jw_multitier = 1.

Dataset
Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote
Type of variable
Binary
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-12-19
Last updated by source
2012-03-24

Categories

Political Parties and Elections

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Standard Time-series - 2026 Original dataset
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series 20
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1978-2005

Country coverage

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  • Armenia
  • Bolivia
  • Denmark
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea, South
  • Lesotho
  • New Zealand
  • Pakistan (1971-)
  • Philippines
  • Russia
  • Sweden
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Ukraine
  • Venezuela

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1978 to 2005.