Late 1990s cross-sectional data covering 83 subnational units: 32 Mexican states, 24 Argentine provinces, and 27 Brazilian states. The database was built to study the relationship between legislative representation bias, the power balance of regional coalitions, and the distribution of intergovernmental transfers. Data was obtained from administrative bodies, government statistics offices, and the congresses of each country.
Use Cases
- Modeling the distribution of intergovernmental transfers based on regional coalition power balance.
- Analyzing the relationship between legislative representation bias and fiscal outcomes at the subnational level.
- Comparing federal transfer systems across three major Latin American federations.
Strengths
- Covers 83 distinct subnational units across three countries.
- Data sourced from official administrative bodies and national congresses.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Data obtained from administrative bodies, government statistics offices, and national congresses.
- Time Range
- Late 1990s
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-11 15:15:54; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Brazil, Argentina, Mexico