Introducing COMEPELDA: Comprehensive European Parliament electoral data covering rules, parties and candidates

Thomas Däubler, Mihail Chiru and Silje SL Hermansen
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Thomas Däubler: School of Politics and International Relations, 8797University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Mihail Chiru: Department of Politics and International Relations, 6396University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Median Research Centre, Bucharest, Romania
Silje SL Hermansen: iCourts – The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

European Union Politics, 2022, vol. 23, issue 2, 351-371

Abstract: We introduce a new collection of data that consolidates information on European Parliament elections into one comprehensive source. It provides information on formal electoral rules as well as national-level and district-level election results for parties and individual politicians (including full candidate lists). The use of existing and new key variables makes it easy to link the data across the different units of observation (country, party, candidate, member of parliament) and join them with external information. Currently, the data cover four elections (1999–2014). Among other aspects, the collection should facilitate research on the European Parliament's allegedly weak electoral connection. In this article, we outline the main features of the datasets, describe patterns of intra-party competition and preference voting and conduct exploratory analyses of individual-level changes in list positions.

Keywords: European Parliament; electoral systems; election results; candidate selection; political careers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/14651165211053439

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