Electoral System Changes in Europe doi:10.34934/DVN/OTAEBW Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA 2024-12-05 1 Pilet, Jean-Benoit; Renwick, Alan, 2024, "Electoral System Changes in Europe", https://doi.org/10.34934/DVN/OTAEBW, Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA, V1 Electoral System Changes in Europe doi:10.34934/DVN/OTAEBW Pilet, Jean-Benoit Renwick, Alan Pilet, Jean-Benoit 2016-01-01 Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA Pilet, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Jean-Benoit 2024-11-27 2024-12-05 Social Sciences electoral systems electoral laws Europe elections Politics.Elections Politics.GovernmentPoliticalSystemsAndOrganisations Dataset of electoral systems for lower chamber of parliament in 31 European democracies (EU27, CH, NOR, UK, ISL) between 1945 and 2020 1945-01-01 2015-12-31 2011-01-01 2016-12-31 Election year All elections for national lower chamber of parliament. Between 1945 (or first democratic elections) in 30 European countries (EU27, UK, CH, ISL) The dataset present, for each year between 1945 and 2015, the core characteristics of the electoral system that is used for the elections of the national parliament (lower chamber) in 30 European countries (EU27, UK, CH, ISL). <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a> (CC-BY). Codebook Database of Electoral Systems_01-04-2016.docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Database Electoral System-01-04-2016.xls application/vnd.ms-excel