Variable: Environmental parties: share of seats

QoG Code: (vparty_envseat)


Dataset: V-Party Dataset

Description:

The variable measures the share of seats in the lower chamber taken by the parties, for which environmental protection is relevant to gain and keep voters, as agreed on by at least half of the coders in the V-Party dataset.

The original variable from V-Party dataset - v2pasalie - measures the share of coders who answered "12: Environmental protection" to the multiple-choice question "Which of the following issues are most relevant for the party's effort to gain and keep voters?". We only keep parties that score 0.5 or higher on variable v2pasalie_12 and then calculate their share of seats in a given country-year using v2paseatshare variable - Seat share the party gained in the election to the lower chamber.

Type of variable: Continuous


Last updated by source: 2020-10-01


Categories:

Environment


Find this variable in:

Environmental Indicators - 2021 Original Dataset

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This variable has information from the year 1970 to the year 2019