Updating the Party Government data set‡ Public Release Version 2.0 Appendix 1b: Notes on Our Coding Decisions July 25, 2016 Katsunori Seki§ Laron K. Williams¶ ‡If you use this data set, please cite: Seki, Katsunori and Laron K. Williams. 2014. “Updating the Party Government Data Set.” Electoral Studies. 34: 270–279. §Collaborative Research Center SFB 884, University of Mannheim;
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[email protected] Notes on Our Coding Decisions This appendix is designed to maintain replicability and transparency of our coding in “Data Set 1: Governments.” Following notes are organized by variables.1 They show discrepancies between our coding and WKB (2000; 2011) data with the sources of information by which we made a decision. Since coding of Reason for Termination (rft) variable requires qualitative judgement and is not entirely free from measurement error, we quoted sentences and paragraphs on which our update is based. Our primary sources of information is European Journal of Political Research’s The Political Data Yearbook. This means that our update did not check the measurement of rft by WKB (2000; 2011) before 1991. The full set of citations is found in Appendix 1c. 1In this update (Version 2.0), we provide notes on govtseq, startyear, startmonth, startday, rft, tog, gpar- ties, py#name, and py#seat. 2 govtseq Austria • govtseq=21, new=2 The Vrantizky government (govtseq=20) “resigned on 18 December 1995 and reappointed as caretaker government until 12 March 1996.” (Fallend 1997, 313) • govtseq=24, new=2 The Klima government was formed on January 28, 1997.