Prime Ministerial Power Expert Survey Across 21 Parliamentary Democracies
by Marland, Alex / Borealis Harvested Dataverse·Updated 1mo ago
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Description
An expert survey on prime ministerial power across 21 parliamentary democracies, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The dataset, authored by Alex Marland and updated in April 2026, enables testing of theories on executive centralisation and trends like presidentialisation. Findings assess prime ministers' influence on policy, authority over ministers, governing style, and control over their parliamentary party.
Use Cases
Test theories of increasing prime ministerial power and centralisation based on expert survey data.
Analyze trends towards presidentialisation and prime ministerialisation across different countries.
Examine executive centralisation by assessing prime ministers' authority to hire and fire ministers.
Study prime ministers' governing style and tolerance of backbench critique based on survey responses.
Compare prime ministerial power and policy influence across 21 parliamentary democracies.
Strengths
Covers 21 parliamentary democracies, including major nations like Australia, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Updates an earlier study, providing a contemporary perspective on 21st-century prime ministerial power.
Based on an expert survey, a recognized methodology for assessing political power and institutional features.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale statistical modeling.
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
Source
Borealis Harvested Dataverse
Collection Method
Expert survey
Time Range
21st century
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-25 04:11:23; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
License is unknown; terms of use should be verified before download.