Charges of Malfeasance, Preference Votes, Government Portfolios, and Characteristics of Legislators, Chamber of Deputies, Republic of Italy, Legislatures I-XI: Preference Votes, 1948-1994 (doi:10.7910/DVN/EGJLRM)

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Charges of Malfeasance, Preference Votes, Government Portfolios, and Characteristics of Legislators, Chamber of Deputies, Republic of Italy, Legislatures I-XI: Preference Votes, 1948-1994

doi:10.7910/DVN/EGJLRM

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Miriam Golden, 2007, "Charges of Malfeasance, Preference Votes, Government Portfolios, and Characteristics of Legislators, Chamber of Deputies, Republic of Italy, Legislatures I-XI: Preference Votes, 1948-1994", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EGJLRM, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:94G+qz8LBXlU0nGf2/7vHw== [fileUNF]

Charges of Malfeasance, Preference Votes, Government Portfolios, and Characteristics of Legislators, Chamber of Deputies, Republic of Italy, Legislatures I-XI: Preference Votes, 1948-1994

doi:10.7910/DVN/EGJLRM

Miriam Golden (University of California, Los Angeles)

2007

Harvard Dataverse

Miriam Golden

2007

2007

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EGJLRM

Dataset on preference votes received by Christian Democratic (DC) and Socialist Party (PSI) candidates in the elections for Legislatures I-XI to the Chamber of Deputies (1948 to 1992). During this period, Italy used a relatively pure version of open-list proportional representation. Until the 1992 parliamentary elections, voters could optionally indicate their preference for as many as three (or in districts with 16 or more representatives, four) candidates from the party list they selected. As of 1992, voters could use only a single preference vote. Typically, only about 30 percent of Italian voters used any of their available preference votes. Individual candidates were seated according to the number of preference votes received, while the number of seats won by each party was determined by the number of list votes received by the party. The number of seats (district magnitude) in Italy's 31 electoral districts using proportional representation (a 32nd electoral district, the Valle d'Aosta, was a majoritarian single member district) ranged from 4 to 53, with the average around 20. Parties listed as many candidates as there were seats, and individuals could stand in as many as three districts simultaneously, as well as simultaneously for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Starting with the elections held in 1994, the electoral system was substantially altered, and a mixed PR/majoritarian system used. It is not possible to match electoral districts before and after 1994. (This description of Italy's electoral system is taken from Douglas Wertman, "The Italian Electoral Process: The Elections of June 1976," in Italy at the Polls: The Parliamentary Elections of 1976, ed. Howard R. Penniman (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1977).) The dataset includes the number of individual-level preference votes received by each Chamber candidate for the DC and PSI, the candidate's party affiliation, the candidate's district number, the candidate's legislature number, whether the candidate was elected or not, and whether, having won, s/he choose to be seated in another district or for the upper house instead.

1948-1994

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

• Number of cases: 104

• No. of variables per record: 5

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Shows the correspondence between provinces, regions, and electoral districts for the period through 1994 (after which Italy’s electoral system underwent substantial modification)

• Number of cases: 15125

• No. of variables per record: 8

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data for this study in Stata format

• Number of cases: 350

• No. of variables per record: 3

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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A dataset reporting the total number of deputies elected to the lower house for Legislatures I-XI (i.e. district magnitude)

• provid
• province
• electoral_district
• regione
• regionid
• surname - l_name
• name - f_name
• leg - legislature number
• tid - unique id
• gotseat - seat in current legislature or unplaced candidate
• district - electoral district number
• pvotes - number of preference votes received
• pid - party id
• year
• district
• seatstot

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Codebook-pref.pdf

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Codebook for this study

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Dates.doc

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Shows election dates to the Italian parliament for Legislatures I-XI (date elected, date seated, date dissolved)

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goldenPREF.zip

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Zip file containing data for this study

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Pref.csv

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Data for this study in Excel/csv format

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