Party affiliation of the Head of Government (HoG)
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| Data type | String |
| Scale | String |
| Value labels | Not applicable |
| Technical name | polnat_hog_party_english |
| Category | Political factors |
| Label | Party affiliation of the Head of Government (HoG) |
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This indicator reports the harmonized, English party name for the HoG party based on Party Facts, a collaborative online database of political parties worldwide that enhances the cross-comparability of data on political parties (Döring and Regel 2019).
Coding rules
- A party ID is assigned if a party name or acronym was clearly stated in the sources. In case of doubt, external sources were consulted. If, however, a party affiliation was not mentioned at all or could not be determined unambiguously, depending on the title of the HoG either the country-specific Party Facts ID "technical" or "independent" was assigned.
- If the HoG position in a country is usually taken by party members but the sources gave no hint for the focal HoG, the country-specific Party Facts ID "independent" is used.
- The country-specific Party Facts ID "technical" was used to code non-party leaders like Kings/Queens/Regents, (Foreign) Military Leaders, Governor Generals/Governors/Commissioners etc., i.e. representatives of a Crown (in [former] colonies), or collective bodies (group of persons). While such positions are usually not taken by party affiliates, if a party affiliation was clearly mentioned in the sources it was still coded accordingly.
- The variable v2exhoshog from V-Dem's main dataset was used to identify those years where the HoS is also the HoG. In these cases data for the HoG-variables (i.e. name, party affiliation and Party Facts ID) is set to missing.
Further coding rules can be found in Düpont, Döring, and Bederke 2021.
Bibliographic info
Citation: Düpont, Nils, Holger Döring and Paul Bederke. 2021. "Leaders Global: Party Affiliations of Leaders (HoS/HoG) in 183 countries, 1880–2020." Harvard Dataverse, V1. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Z6V1ST
Related publications:- Döring, Holger, and Sven Regel. 2019. "Party Facts: A Database of Political Parties Worldwide". Party Politics 25 (2): 97–109. https://doi.org/10.1177/F1354068818820671
Misc
Project manager(s): Nils Düpont (A01)
Data release:- Version 0.001: Initial release
Revisions: No revisions yet
Sources
- Düpont, Nils, Holger Döring and Paul Bederke. 2021. "Leaders Global: Party Affiliations of Leaders (HoS/HoG) in 183 countries, 1880–2020." Harvard Dataverse, V1. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Z6V1ST
