The PPEG Database contains information on political parties, presidents, elections, and governments around the world. It brings together a range of datasets produced by former and present members of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
Our goal is to provide a comprehensive resource of election and
government information for research, education, and policy-making.
The current version of the database covers
information from 73 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe between 1945 and 2023 including data on
3 261 political parties, 1 060 parliamentary elections, 380 presidential elections, and
1 961 cabinets.
Data Downloads
The material can be downloaded free of charge.
Before using the data, we encourage you to read the corresponding codebooks.
The data will be downloaded in a .zip file containing three different files (.csv, .rds, and .dta) and the corresponding codebook.
Citation
If you use the data, please cite it as follows:
Krause, Werner; Stelzle, Robert; WZB Berlin, 2024, "PPEG - Political Parties, Presidents, Elections and Governments, Version 2024v1", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/K5AJAW, Harvard Dataverse, V1.
Contact
For questions and comments, please write an email to ppeg@wzb.eu.
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Ursula Noack (Managing Director)
Shareholders
Federal Republic of Germany and Federal State of Berlin
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