Description
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Legislator-level data. Survey answers for 3,915 face-to-face interviews conducted in 17 countries conducted between 2002 and 2012 by the University of Salamanca’s Parliamentary Elites in Latin America Project (Alcántara Sáez 2024). It contains information of legislators' preferences regarding power-sharing institutions, age, gender, legislative experience and ideological position. It also contains party-level information, such as party magnitude, incumbency status and party’s age. It finally contains country-level information, including measures of legislative and non-legislative powers of the president, ideological position of the president, president’s approval rating, level of democracy, consecutive years of democracy, GDP growth and inflation. |