Post-Communist Parliamentary Election Data Collected

David M. Olson and William E. Crowther, University of North Carolina at Greensboro,  have collected data at the Center for Legislative Studies on the first decade of parliamentary elections in six post-communist parliaments (Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Russia, and Slovenia). The collection is available online at http://library.uncg.edu/ir. Data for each election are reported in five tables: votes and seats; effective number of electoral parties; votes and seats by threshold level; parliamentary party group seats at the beginning of session; and the effective number of parliamentary party groups at the beginning of session.  The first decade encompasses four elections for most of our parliaments.

This data set was prepared for our new book on the first decade of post-communist parliaments: /Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade ( /Philip Norton and David M. Olson, eds., London: Routledge, forthcoming), also published as a special issue of /Journal of Legislative Studies, /“Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: Beyond Transition”  (13:1 March 2007). We are preparing a similar parliamentary electoral data set in support of a projected book on the second decade of post-communist parliaments.