Power, Timothy
(2017).
Coalitional presidentialism in comparative perspective: minority executives in multiparty systems.
[Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex:
UK Data Archive.
10.5255/UKDA-SN-852003
The research is motivated by the surprising sustainability of multiparty presidentialism in Africa, Latin America, and postcommunist Europe. Despite predictions to the contrary, presidents have been remarkably successful at winning legislative support from fragmented parliaments.The project aims: (1) to identify the tools that presidents use to govern in concert with multiparty legislatures and (2) to assess the effects of these tools on horizontal accountability in new democracies. Through a comparative analysis of presidential-legislative relations in Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia and Ukraine, the project examines how strategies of coalition management vary across cases and the impact that this has on the trade-off between policy decisiveness and horizontal accountability.
Data description (abstract)
This collection brings together data from the Coalitional Presidentialism Project, which ran at the University of Oxford from 2011-2015. The dataset contains information on the composition and legislative performance of multiparty coalitions assembled by directly elected minority presidents in nine countries (Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine). The dataset also contains data from a survey conducted among 350 members of parliament across the nine countries, as well as transcripts of semi-structured interviews with these same legislators.
| Data creators: |
| Creator Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Power Timothy |
University of Oxford |
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| Sponsors: |
ESRC
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| Grant reference: |
ES/I008241/1
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| Topic classification: |
Politics
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| Keywords: |
Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, Ukraine, presidentialism, coalition government, executive-legislative relations, democratic consolidation, horizontal accountability, political institutions, political parties, legislatures, minority government
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| Project title: |
Coalitional Presidentialism in Africa, Latin America and Postcommunist Europe: Dynamics of Executive-Legislative Relations in New Democracies
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| Alternative title: |
Coalitional Presidentialism in Africa, Latin America and Postcommunist Europe: Dynamics of Executive-Legislative Relations in New Democracies
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| Grant holders: |
Timothy J. Power, Paul Chaisty, Nic Cheeseman
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| Project dates: |
| From | To |
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| 1 September 2011 | 28 February 2015 |
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| Date published: |
14 Oct 2015 11:16
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| Last modified: |
14 Jul 2017 12:30
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| Temporal coverage: |
| From | To |
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| 1 January 1979 | 31 August 2015 |
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| Collection period: |
| Date from: | Date to: |
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| 1 September 2011 | 28 February 2015 |
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| Geographical area: |
Africa, Latin America, Europe |
| Country: |
Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, Ukraine |
| Spatial unit: |
Other |
| Data collection method: |
Survey research and semi-structured personal interviews conducted between 2012 and 2015 with 350 members of national legislative bodies in Armenia (N=30), Benin (N=30), Brazil (N=50), Chile (N=30), Ecuador (N=30), Kenya (N=40), Malawi (N=40), Russia (N=50), and Ukraine (N=50). Also data on composition of inter-party coalitions assembled by presidents and on their legislative performance, collected by project research consultants in the nine national capital cities, and augmented with external data. |
| Observation unit: |
Event/Process, Individual |
| Kind of data: |
Numeric, Text |
| Type of data: |
Qualitative and mixed methods data |
| Resource language: |
English |
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| Data sourcing, processing and preparation: |
The CPP engaged local researchers in each of the 9 project countries to conduct personal interviews with present and former members of each national legislature. The N of interviews was 30 for small legislative bodies (Armenia, Benin, Chile, Ecuador), 40 for intermediate size bodies (Kenya and Malawi), and 50 for large legislatures (Brazil, Russia, Ukraine). For each country, approximately 60% of the sample was drawn from pro-government coalitions and 40% from opposition factions. Within each group, researchers sought to represent the constituent parties according to their size, and to achieve an appropriate mix of party leaders and backbenchers from within each group.
The survey questionnaire is provided and also serves as a codebook for the "Pooled Survey Data" spreadsheet. The responses from the structured (closed) questions are contained in the "Pooled Survey Data" spreadsheet with data values and missing data codes described on the questionnaire itself. The responses to the semi-structured (open-ended) questions, corresponding items C1-C12 on the survey, were tape recorded with the consent of the subject.
Interviews were recorded in the original project languages and respondents were asked if they consented to a deposit of an anonymised transcript. Research consultants transcribed the audio recordings, and these were then translated into English. The co-PI's reviewed the transcripts and redacted any information that could be used to identify the respondent, whether directly or indirectly. In some cases, this involved suppressing accounts of specific actions undertaken by the member (e.g. bill sponsorship, roll-call votes, committee roles etc.) or comments made about other members of the legislature or members of the executive.
The transcripts are deposited as nine separate files in Rich Text Format.
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| Rights owners: |
| Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Power Timothy |
University of Oxford |
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| Chaisty Paul |
University of Oxford |
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| Cheeseman Nic |
University of Oxford |
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| Contact: |
| Name | Email | Affiliation | ORCID (as URL) |
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| Power, Timothy | timothy.power@lac.ox.ac.uk | University of Oxford | Unspecified |
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| Notes on access: |
The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service.
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| Publisher: |
UK Data Archive
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| Last modified: |
14 Jul 2017 12:30
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