<resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4" xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.1/metadata.xsd"><identifier identifierType="DOI">10.34934/DVN/OTAEBW</identifier><creators><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Pilet, Jean-Benoit</creatorName><givenName>Jean-Benoit</givenName><familyName>Pilet</familyName><nameIdentifier nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0001-5612-0835</nameIdentifier><affiliation>Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Renwick, Alan</creatorName><givenName>Alan</givenName><familyName>Renwick</familyName><affiliation>University College London</affiliation></creator></creators><titles><title>Electoral System Changes in Europe</title></titles><publisher>Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA</publisher><publicationYear>2024</publicationYear><subjects><subject>Social Sciences</subject><subject>electoral systems</subject><subject>electoral laws</subject><subject>Europe</subject><subject>elections</subject><subject schemeURI="https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/TopicClassification" subjectScheme="CESSDA Topic Classification">Politics.Elections</subject><subject schemeURI="https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/TopicClassification" subjectScheme="CESSDA Topic Classification">Politics.GovernmentPoliticalSystemsAndOrganisations</subject></subjects><contributors><contributor contributorType="ContactPerson"><contributorName nameType="Organizational">Pilet, Jean-Benoit</contributorName><affiliation>Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)</affiliation></contributor><contributor contributorType="Producer"><contributorName>Pilet, Jean-Benoit</contributorName><affiliation>Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)</affiliation></contributor></contributors><dates><date dateType="Created">2016-01-01</date><date dateType="Submitted">2024-11-27</date><date dateType="Updated">2024-12-05</date><date dateType="Collected">2011-01-01/2016-12-31</date></dates><resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset"/><sizes><size>172551</size><size>665088</size></sizes><formats><format>application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document</format><format>application/vnd.ms-excel</format></formats><version>1.0</version><rightsList><rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess"/><rights/></rightsList><descriptions><description descriptionType="Abstract">Dataset of electoral systems for lower chamber of parliament in 31 European democracies (EU27, CH, NOR, UK, ISL) between 1945 and 2020</description><description descriptionType="Other">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).</description></descriptions><geoLocations/><fundingReferences><fundingReference><funderName>FNRS</funderName></fundingReference></fundingReferences></resource>