{"id":6293,"date":"2016-11-15T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T08:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2016-11-15T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T08:39:00","slug":"crowdsourcing-a-dataset-multiparty-democracies-election-thresholds-and-running-for-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2016\/11\/crowdsourcing-a-dataset-multiparty-democracies-election-thresholds-and-running-for-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing a dataset: Multiparty democracies, election thresholds and running for parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to re-do <a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/What_are_the_effects_of_election_thresholds\">my old and not too well done 2013 study<\/a>. It goes like this, for multiparty democracies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Countries differ in the number of houses: 1 vs. 2.<\/li>\n<li>Countries differ in the number of seats in these houses.<\/li>\n<li>Usually, to get a party on the ballot, one must first collect X signatures. This number X varies.<\/li>\n<li>To get a seat in parliament, usually there&#8217;s a threshold so that parties below that do not get in, even if they would have gotten &gt;0 seats. This threshold varies.<\/li>\n<li>These variations likely have a substantial effect on the party-diversity of parliament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apparently, there&#8217;s very little academic research on how works, so I collected some data years ago. I found a correlation of about -.50 between election thresholds and number of parties in parliament. Looks like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/old.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6295 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/old-1024x717.png\" alt=\"old\" width=\"720\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was all done using sketchy Wikipedia data, so it must be redone. I also failed to realize the number of seats in parliament was a confounding factor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1dDWsZmAbzg9gFZ89bD6P5sWVY__30DCCLpW8zAAcE8o\/edit#gid=0\">There&#8217;s a spreadsheet here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m looking for collaborators who can fill in data for countries. I&#8217;ve prefilled the sheet with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Election_threshold\">Wikipedia data<\/a>. But more is needed for a reliable dataset:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find the laws for each country that state the rules for 1) election threshold, and 2) number of required signatures to get on the ballot.<\/li>\n<li>Check numbers and update datafile and Wikipedia accordingly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy to collect this data because of the many languages, so it&#8217;s a crowdsourcing project. Finding the laws and exact \u00a7 even if one speaks the language often isn&#8217;t easy.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, judgments must be made because voting systems <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Table_of_voting_systems_by_country\">vary quite a bit<\/a>. There&#8217;s also the question of how to deal with independents. I counted them as 1 party before, but perhaps that&#8217;s the wrong approach. Many countries use two-set systems where the national parliament is made up of members or delegates from regional parliaments. Complicated&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to help, send me an email or send me your email on Twitter. Note which languages you want to cover.<\/p>\n<p>So far, have people covering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scandinavian (including Finland).<\/li>\n<li>German<\/li>\n<li>Italian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, need everything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to re-do my old and not too well done 2013 study. It goes like this, for multiparty democracies: Countries differ in the number of houses: 1 vs. 2. Countries differ in the number of seats in these houses. Usually, to get a party on the ballot, one must first collect X signatures. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1946],"tags":[2433,2432,1870,2434],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-science","tag-crowdsourcing","tag-dataset","tag-democracy","tag-multiparty","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6301,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions\/6301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}