Election dummy lower legislative chamber

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Binary
Value labels	0: No 1: Yes
Technical name	polnat_polity_election_dummy
Category	Political factors
Label	Election dummy lower legislative chamber
Related indicators	Election date lower legislative chamber

Dichotomous indicator whether an election to the 1st or lower legislative chamber took place in a given year.

Coding rules

• Based on WeSIS' entity list, the indicator represents a time-series for each entity ranging from the first to the last year a country either was "independent" or "related to" (columns "independence" and "relation_year" respectively). For some entities the time-series may therefore largely consist of "zeros".
• Only elections to 1st or "lower" chambers are considered. Presidential elections and elections to 2nd chambers are not included in Elections Global.
• Data is reported valid as of December 31st of a given year. In rare cases where more than one election took place in a given year, earlier elections are not included.
• Whenever possible, the exact date is reported. In some cases only the year and month could be identified, while in a few cases only the year could be determined.

For further coding rules see the codebook of Döring and Düpont 2020.

Bibliographic info

Citation: Döring, Holger, and Nils Düpont. 2020. "Elections Global: Election results in 207 countries, 1880–2015". Harvard Dataverse, V2. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OGOURC

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Misc

Project manager(s): Nils Düpont (A01), Paul Bederke

Data release: Not yet applicable

Revisions: Not yet applicable

Sources

• Döring, Holger, and Nils Düpont. 2020. "Elections Global: Election results in 207 countries, 1880–2015". Harvard Dataverse, V2. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OGOURC