Bormann Nils-Christian, Kaftan Lea
Department of Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, North Rhine-Westphalia, 58455, Germany.
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, 50667, Germany.
Open Res Eur. 2024 Sep 6;4:73. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.17264.1. eCollection 2024.
This data note introduces an update to the widely-used Democratic Electoral Systems (DES) data that encompasses the period from 1919 to 1945. The data include 243 legislative lower house and presidential elections in 34 interwar democracies. Information on these elections falls into four categories: first and foremost, DES contains variables that capture the institutional rules that define how elections are organized. Second, the data captures the consequences of electoral rules in the form of summary statistics of electoral outcomes. Third, we include democracy classifications for four major democracy datasets so that users can choose their preferred democracy definition when working with the data. Finally, the DES dataset contains multiple identification variables that allow linking the DES data to a wide variety of other datasets. This update to the DES data is fully compatible with prior releases for the post-war period .
本数据说明介绍了广泛使用的民主选举制度（DES）数据的更新内容，该数据涵盖了1919年至1945年的时间段。数据包括两次世界大战之间34个民主国家的243次立法下议院和总统选举。这些选举的信息分为四类：首先也是最重要的，DES包含一些变量，这些变量捕捉了定义选举如何组织的制度规则。其次，数据以选举结果汇总统计的形式捕捉选举规则的后果。第三，我们纳入了四个主要民主数据集的民主分类，以便用户在使用数据时可以选择他们偏好的民主定义。最后，DES数据集包含多个识别变量，这些变量允许将DES数据与各种各样的其他数据集相链接。DES数据的此次更新与战后时期的先前版本完全兼容。
