structural_modeldata: Input Data for structural model

Description Usage Format

Description

Input Data for structural model

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 1864 rows and 25 variables:

year

election year

land

regional level

date

election date

wbt

voter turnout

party

party name

vote

vote share

partytype

classification in spd/union/small and others

lag_ltw

one-period lag of landtagswahl result

lag_btw

one-period lag of bundestagswahl result (of that party in that state)

date_btw

date of the last bundestagswahl

cabinet

name of the cabinet

primeminister_name

name of the incumbent prime minister

party_x

1st to 3rd party listing coalition members (1st party is party of PM)

start

year that the incumbent government was formed

end

year it was replaced

primeminister

Logical T/F if party is holding incumbency of PM

gov

Logical T/F if party is incumbent coalition member

juniorpartner

T/F if party is junior partner (gov but not PM)

bip

absolute bip in billion <e2><82><ac>

bipchange

change in bip in the last 2 years prior to the election

firsttime

Logical T/F if party is firsttime contender

distance_btw_lag

distance to last Bundestagswahl in days

others

other parties


schliebs/voteR documentation built on May 7, 2019, 3:33 p.m.