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Prime Ministers in Europe. Changing Career Experiences and Profiles

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Prime Ministers in Europe. Changing Career Experiences and Profiles
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QX26VI
 
Creator Ferdinand Müller-Rommel
Michelangelo Vercesi
Berz, Jan
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This dataset contains career and sociodemographic data on prime ministers in Europe starting with 1945 or the respective democratization years of European countries (prime minister Winston Churchill was also included despite his earlier investiture). The data includes one observation for each prime minister and tracks career data until their first time of investiture into office. Additional variables track prime ministers governance of different types of government, interruptions and overall time in office. This data has been tracked past their first investiture into office until the last year of observation (2019). It includes data used in the Monograph: "Prime Ministers in Europe. Changing Career Experiences and Profiles."
 
Subject Social Sciences
prime ministers
 
Language English
 
Contributor Berz, Jan
 
Source The information collected to build the dataset about the background characteristics and careers of prime ministers in Europe were drawn from the following sources.
• List and types of cabinets and prime ministerial terms:
◦ Annual volumes of the European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook
◦ Döring, H., & Manow, P. (2020). Parliaments and Governments Database (ParlGov): Information on Parties, Elections and Cabinets in Modern Democracies. Development version
◦ Müller-Rommel, F., Schultze, H., Harfst, P., & Fettelschoss, K. (2008). Parteienregierungen in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Empirische Befunde im Ländervergleich (1990-2008). Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 39(4), 810-831
◦ Woldendorp, J., Keman, H., & Budge, I. (2011). Party Government in 40 Democracies 1945-2008. Composition-Duration-Personnel.
• Socio-demographic background and career variables:
◦ Biografías Líderes Políticos of the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (www.cidob.org)
◦ Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (www.willy-brandt.de)
◦ Cook, B. A. (2001). Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia. 2 volumes. Abingdon: Routledge.
◦ Enciclopedia Treccani (www.treccani.it)
◦ Encyclopedia Britannica (www.britannica.com)
◦ European Commission (ec.europa.eu)
◦ European Parliament (www.europarl.europa.eu)
◦ Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Stiftung (www.hdg.de)
◦ Heidar, K., & Koole, R. (Eds.) (2000). Parliamentary Party Groups in European Democracies. Political Parties Behind Closed Doors. London: Routledge.
◦ Jeffries, I. (2004). The Countries of the Former Soviet Union at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: The Baltic and European States in Transition. Abingdon: Routledge.
◦ Jensen, J. S. (2008). Women Political Leaders. Breaking the Highest Glass Ceiling. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
◦ Kolumbus.fi
◦ Konrad Adenauer (www.konrad.adenauer.de)
◦ Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (www.kas.de)
◦ Lentz, H. M. (Ed.) (1994). Heads of State and Governments. A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Over 2,300 Leaders, 1945 through 1992. Abingdon: Routledge.
◦ Munzinger. Wissen, das zählt (www.munzinger.de)
◦ National Biography of Finland (kansallisbiografia.fi/)
◦ Novinite news provider (www.novinite.com)
◦ Odis database (www.odis.be)
◦ Official government, presidential, and prime ministerial websites
◦ Official parliamentary websites
◦ Official personal websites of former and incumbent prime ministers
◦ Official websites of political parties
◦ Virtual Centre for Knowledge about Europe (CVCE) (www.cvce.eu)
◦ Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) (for cross-checking).
◦ Zárate’s Political Collections: World Political Leaders (zarate.eu/countries.htm)