id,type,name,data_source,description,comment
1,table,external_country_iso,parlgov,ISO 3166 country codes worldwide with some additional information,
3,table,external_party_castles_mair,castles,party position data from Castles/Mair (1983),
4,table,external_party_benoit_laver,benoit,party data (party names) from Benoit/Laver (2006),
5,table,cabinet_party,parlgov,list of parties that are members of a cabinet -- no party affiliation observations (party_id) are included if the prime minister is not a party member ,
7,view,viewcalc_party_position,parlgov,policy positions of political parties in important dimensions as provided through various expert surveys,
8,table,election_result,parlgov,results of parliamentary elections at the party level,
11,table,external_party_chess,ches,"party names from the codebook of Chapel Hill Expert Surveys Series (CHESS) on the positioning of political parties (1996, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2010)",
20,table,external_commissioner_doering,doering,members of the European Union's College of Commissioners,
21,table,party_change,parlgov,linking parties that evolved through changes -- observation in this table link predecessor/successor parties or party splits  from 'party' table -- this information is still incomplete with updates and extensions in future ParlGov versions,
28,table,external_party_huber_inglehart,huber,party position data from Huber/Inglehart (1995),
29,table,party,parlgov,party information with links to data sets (ParlGov external) that contain political positons of parties,
37,table,external_party_cmp,cmp,list of parties from the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) data set,
45,table,external_party_euprofiler,euprofiler,list of parties from the EU Profiler (Trechsel/Mair 2009),
55,table,external_party_ees,ees,list of parties from the European Election Study (2009),
56,table,external_party_ray,ray,list of parties from Ray (1999),
69,table,viewcalc_parliament_composition,parlgov,"compositon of parliament for changes in parliament (table 'parliament_change'), information about composition of parliament (table 'parliament_composition') and dates of cabinet formation ('start_date' from table 'cabinet')",
71,table,viewcalc_country_year_share,parlgov,country year weights for elections (national and EP) and cabinets -- each entry gives the share of the respective year the legislature or cabinet was in office,
73,table,politician_president,parlgov,Party-affiliated heads of state. Short-term acting presidents are not included.,
74,view,view_variable,parlgov,"documentation of variables in main data tables (party, election, cabinet)",