Novel data on legislative initiatives and manifesto commitments of members of France's Chamber of Deputies during the interwar period. The dataset supports a study comparing politician behavior under different electoral rules, specifically single-member majoritarian and open-list proportional representation systems. It enables analysis of programmatic redistribution efforts in parliament and campaigns.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between electoral systems and the volume of legislative initiatives focused on redistribution.
- Compare manifesto commitments for programmatic redistribution across single-member and proportional representation electoral rules.
- Examine individual-level variation in politician behavior using data on members of the Chamber of Deputies.
Strengths
- Data is derived from a novel collection of legislative initiatives and manifesto commitments.
- Focuses on a historically significant period of institutional change in interwar France.
- Enables a within-politician comparison across two distinct electoral systems.
Limitations
- Sample size and temporal coverage are not specified in the provided input.
- Data scope is limited to France's Chamber of Deputies and may not generalize to other legislatures.
- The specific variables, column structure, and file formats are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- Comparative Political Studies Dataverse, authored by Isabela Mares.
- Collection Method
- Novel data collection on legislative initiatives and manifesto commitments.
- Time Range
- Interwar period in France.
- Freshness
- Last updated on 2026-03-23.
- Geography
- France.