The Representative Democracy Data Archive (REPDEM) contains unique data on governments, parliaments, and political parties for (mainly European) parliamentary democracies, and is a world-leading database for research on the competition for government in Europe.
The data can e.g., be used for studies of political coalitions and minority governments. One example is the graph below, which shows the average number of days for government formation after elections in European countries.
REPDEM builds on The European Representative Democracy Data Archive’s (ERDDA), previous international and comparative projects on European parliamentary democracy, but will soon include countries outside of Europe as well. It includes the Party Government in Europe Database (PAGED). The PAGED project concerns key issues of today’s representative democracy, namely delegation, accountability, government formation, governance, and government dissolution.
Read more about the data sources provided by REPDEM and how they are prepared and included in Demscore here: Link
Download the REPDEM static datasets here: Link
The REPDEM project is hosted by the Political Science Department, Umeå University.