2. General Government Taxation Data Set

This file contains data on general government taxation (including total, indirect taxes, business taxes, social security contributions, and personal income taxes) for 20 OECD countries for the period from 1950 through 1995.

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3. Public Employment Data Set

This file contains data on public employment (civilian and military, expresssed as percentage shares of the working age population) as well as data on the wage and non-wage components of general government consumption expenditures (expressed as percentage shares of GDP) for 21 countries from the early 1960s to the mid- 1990s.

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4. Center of Political Gravity Data Set

This file contains data on the electoral, legislative, and cabinet center of political gravity (based on Castles and Mair's expert survey codings) for 20 OECD countries. The time series generally run from 1950 through 1996.

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5. Parties, Governments and Legislatures Data Set

This file contains a collection of folders with a new (2003) data set (and some SPSS and Perl utility programs) that provides information on political parties, governments, and legislatures in 24 OECD countries. The data are generally for the period from the mid-late 1940's to around the year 2000. The raw data contain information on party ideology (based on Comparative Manifesto Project data as well as expert codings), participation in government, and strength in the lower house of the national parliament (as well strength in the upper house in the countries with bicameral legislatures). These raw data are contained in two files. Aggregated information on context (describing characteristics of the government, the government coalition and the opposition in the lower house, and where appropriate, the government coalition and the opposition in the upper house) is supplied in a set of files (each based on a different measure of ideological position). In addition, files with quarterly and yearly aggregations are also available. A set of SPSS syntax files and Perl scripts are available for the user who wishes to define ideological position on the basis of some other formulation than the four used here. Two documentation files are also included, one describing the structures of the data files and outlining the procedures to be undertaken by those who wish to measure ideology in a different way, and the other providing notes on documentation.

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