The "Comparative Political Data Set" (CPDS) is a collection of political and institutional country-level data provided by Klaus Armingeon, Sarah Engler and Lucas Leemann at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). It consists of annual data for 36 democratic countries for the period of 1960 to 2019 or since their transition to democracy.
The present data set combines and replaces the earlier versions “Comparative Political Data Set I” (data for 23 OECD countries from 1960 onwards) and the “Comparative Political Data Set III” (data for 36 OECD and/or EU member states from 1990 onwards). A variable has been added to identify former CPDS I countries.
In addition, the "Supplement to the Comparative Political Data Set – Government Composition 1960-2019" provides detailed information on party composition, reshuffles, duration, reason for termination and the type of government for 36 OECD and/or EU-member countries.
The data set contains some additional economic, socio-economic and demographic variables. However, these variables are not the major concern of the project and are thus limited in scope. For more in-depth sources of these data, see the online databases of the OECD, Eurostat or AMECO. The CPDS is suited for cross-national, longitudinal and pooled time-series analyses.
News / latest updates
>>> August 2021 | New update: CPDS country-year 2019 available
>>> August 2021 | New update: CPDS by government country-year 2019
Citation (please refer to the respective data set as follows)
Armingeon, Klaus, Sarah Engler and Lucas Leemann. 2021.
Comparative Political Data Set 1960-2019.
Zurich: Institute of Political Science, University of Zurich.
Armingeon, Klaus, Sarah Engler and Lucas Leemann. 2021.
Supplement to the Comparative Political Data Set – Government Composition 1960-2019.
Zurich: Institute of Political Science, University of Zurich.
Coverage
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom & USA: 1960-2019
Greece: 1960-1967, 1974-2019
Malta: 1966-2019
Portugal & Cyprus: 1976-2019
Spain: 1977-2019
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania & Slovakia: 1990-2019
Poland: 1991-2019
Estonia & Lithuania: 1992-2019
Latvia & Slovenia: 1993-2019
Croatia: 2000-2019