145 political parties across 19 representative democracies are documented in this consolidated database of party organization, resources, and leadership. The Political Party Database (PPDB) provides key information on party structure and political participation, compiled by Thomas Poguntke of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. It merges two data collection rounds covering the periods circa 2010-2013 and 2012-2016.
Use Cases
- Comparative analysis of party organization and resources across different democracies based on the described variables.
- Modeling the relationship between leadership selection methods and party resources based on the database's scope.
- Analyzing trends in partisan political participation across 19 countries based on the consolidated survey data.
Strengths
- Consolidates data from two collection rounds covering 145 distinct political parties.
- Includes documentation with complete responses for text variables, which may aid interpretation.
- Data is provided in multiple common analysis formats (SPSS, STATA, CSV).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Collection Method
- Online public database compiled from survey data.
- Time Range
- Circa 2010-2016
- Geography
- 19 representative democracies (specific countries not listed)