The Party Personnel Datasets: Advancing Comparative Research in Party Behavior and Legislative Organization Across Electoral Systems

This paper introduces eight country-level datasets with >50,000 observations that can be used to analyze novel comparative questions concerning party personnel strategies—how parties recruit candidates and allocate members across party, legislative, cabinet positions. We make these public inspire research, especially from an electoral systems perspective; shape constituency representation influence how organize in legislative government bodies. In this paper, we first briefly review the relevant literature on nomination post-election appointment then describe our motivations for constructing multi-country further research. To illustrate possibilities new datasets, show recruitment placement of parliamentarians particular personal characteristics correlates their onto specific committees posts. A conclusion identifies other areas research might benefit using datasets.