UK Public Opinion and Party Cohesion Panel Data, 2015-2024

An issue-month panel dataset covering the period from June 2015 to May 2024, corresponding to the Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom. The data integrates public opinion, party cohesion, and legislative agenda activity across 21 major policy topics. Zhan Chen published this dataset on Harvard Dataverse in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between party cohesion and public opinion representation based on the integrated panel structure.
• Analyzing legislative agenda activity over time based on the 21 policy topics coded with the Comparative Agendas Project scheme.
• Investigating the effects of government tenure on opinion representation based on the 2015-2024 time period.

Strengths

• Covers a 9-year period from June 2015 to May 2024.
• Structured around 21 major policy topics using the Comparative Agendas Project coding scheme.
• Integrates three distinct components: public opinion, party cohesion, and legislative activity.

Limitations

• 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

Likely compiled from public opinion surveys, parliamentary records, and party voting data.

Time Range

June 2015 to May 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 15:53:14; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom