COALITIONAGREE: 229 European Coalition Agreements, 1945-2015

24 West and East European countries are represented in this collection of 229 coalition agreements negotiated by 189 parties between 1945 and 2015. The dataset was created by Heike Klüver of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin based on a comprehensive content analysis. It maps the textual content of these political agreements.

Use Cases

• Analyze policy priorities and compromises based on the textual content of coalition agreements.
• Study political party behavior and coalition dynamics across European countries over time.
• Train or evaluate text classification models for political document genres.
• Conduct comparative research on European political systems and agreement structures.

Strengths

• Contains 229 distinct coalition agreement documents.
• Covers a 70-year time range from 1945 to 2015.
• Includes agreements from 24 different European countries.
• Documents were created by 189 distinct political parties.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Heike Klüver, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Collection Method

Comprehensive content analysis of agreement texts.

Time Range

1945-2015

Geography

24 West and East European countries