Complete Reichstag Election Dispute Dataset, 1871-1914 (doi:10.7910/DVN/SMPK2N)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Complete Reichstag Election Dispute Dataset, 1871-1914

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/SMPK2N

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2010-08-25

Version:

3

Bibliographic Citation:

Daniel Ziblatt; Robert Arsenschek, 2010, "Complete Reichstag Election Dispute Dataset, 1871-1914", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SMPK2N, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:5:+ntpuzxNl4qKgbRqwERvMw== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Complete Reichstag Election Dispute Dataset, 1871-1914

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/SMPK2N

Authoring Entity:

Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University)

Robert Arsenschek (Harvard University)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Deposit:

2010-08-24

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SMPK2N

Study Scope

Abstract:

This dataset includes electoral fraud data on every electoral constituency for all thirteen national parliamentary elections in Imperial Germany’s history (between 1871 and 1914). Each constituency-year is coded 1 or 0 depending on whether or not the constituency became the subject of an official investigation for the Reichstag’s Election Investigation Committee. If the committee deemed that the election in a constituency in a particular year was possibly subject to some form of malpractice or fraud and thus needing investigation, the constituency receives a score of 1. If the committee decided that elections in a district in a year did not need investigation, the constituency receives a score of 0. The data also records the gross number of petitioned cases during the entire 1871-1914 period (including multiple investigations of the same seat in a single year) and the net number of seats investigated, excluding the multiple investigations of a single disputed seat within a given year. The source for these scores is the Reichstag Parliamentary Minutes (Stenographische Berichte, 1871-1914) as originally collected for research by Robert Arsenschek

Time Period:

1871-1914

Country:

Germany

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Access

Notes:

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

Other Study Description Materials

Related Publications

Citation

Title:

“Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: The Case of Nineteenth Century Germany” American Political Science Review 103 (1): 1-21

Bibliographic Citation:

“Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: The Case of Nineteenth Century Germany” American Political Science Review 103 (1): 1-21

File Description--f2137965

File: Arsenschek_Ziblatt.tab

  • Number of cases: 399

  • No. of variables per record: 16

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

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Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

constituency

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Year1871

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Year1874

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Year1877

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Year1878

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Year1881

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Year1884

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Year1887

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Year1890

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Year1893

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Year1898

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Year1903

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Year1907

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Year1912

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Variable Format: character

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Gross disputes with double-disputes counted

f2137965 Location:

Variable Format: character

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Net Disputes excluding double counting of disputes

f2137965 Location:

Variable Format: character

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