Kollman and Hicken lead data collection effort that makes available world-wide elections results
July 25, 2018
Ken Kollman and Alan Hicken lead the NSF-funded Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) that gathers, preserves, and makes accessible detailed lower house election results from around the world. CLEA’s collection encompasses all sovereign nations – including the micro-states – and self-governing territories. The May 2018 CLEA data release 11 covers more than 1,800 election results from 162 countries/territories, providing a substantial representation of cases from most regions of the world – in both developed and developing societies. Data from elections that were boycotted, disputed and/or annulled are included.¶¶CLEA enables researchers across the globe to expand research into political parties, elections and political institutions, and provides policy analysts, diplomats, and intelligence analysts data to study the causes and consequences of party system characteristics and to analyze election results.