The global legislators database : characteristics of national legislators in the world's democracies

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dc.contributor.authorCARNES, Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorFERRER, Joshua
dc.contributor.authorGOLDEN, Miriam A.
dc.contributor.authorLILLYWHITE, Esme
dc.contributor.authorLUPU, Noam
dc.contributor.authorNAZRULLAEVA, Eugenia
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-17T09:26:04Z
dc.date.available2025-02-17T09:26:04Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 17 February 2025en
dc.description.abstractThis article describes the Global Legislators Database, a new cross-national dataset on the characteristics – party affiliation, gender, age, education, and occupational background – of nearly 20,000 national parliamentarians in the world’s democracies. The database includes 97 electoral democracies with comprehensive information on legislators who held office in each country’s lower or unicameral chamber during one legislative session in 2015, 2016, or 2017. The GLD is the largest individual-level biographical and demographic database on national legislators ever assembled, with a wide range of potential applications. In this article, we provide multiple types of validity checks of the GLD to document the integrity of the data. We also preview three potential applications of the dataset and note other possible uses for this one-of-a-kind resource for studying representation in the world’s democracies.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2023-2025)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationBritish journal of political science, 2025, Vol. 55, Art. e27, OnlineFirsten
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S000712342400053X
dc.identifier.issn0007-1234
dc.identifier.issn1469-2112
dc.identifier.othere27
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/78051
dc.identifier.volume55en
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofBritish journal of political scienceen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectCandidates
dc.subjectLegislatures and parliaments
dc.subjectPolitical elites
dc.subjectDescriptive representation
dc.titleThe global legislators database : characteristics of national legislators in the world's democraciesen
dc.typeArticleen
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