Tiervote (upper house)

QoG code: jw_tiervote2

Equals 1 when citizens are given a separate vote for deputies in each legislative tier.

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 17
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1978-2005

Country coverage

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  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Dominican Republic
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • Paraguay
  • Philippines
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Thailand
  • United States

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1978 to 2005.