{"id": 1, "type": "table", "name": "external_country_iso", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "ISO 3166 country codes worldwide with some additional information", "comment": ""}
{"id": 3, "type": "table", "name": "external_party_castles_mair", "data_source": "castles", "description": "party position data from Castles/Mair (1983)", "comment": ""}
{"id": 4, "type": "table", "name": "external_party_benoit_laver", "data_source": "benoit", "description": "party data (party names) from Benoit/Laver (2006)", "comment": ""}
{"id": 5, "type": "table", "name": "cabinet_party", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "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 ", "comment": ""}
{"id": 7, "type": "view", "name": "viewcalc_party_position", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "policy positions of political parties in important dimensions as provided through various expert surveys", "comment": ""}
{"id": 8, "type": "table", "name": "election_result", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "results of parliamentary elections at the party level", "comment": ""}
{"id": 11, "type": "table", "name": "external_party_chess", "data_source": "ches", "description": "party names from the codebook of Chapel Hill Expert Surveys Series (CHESS) on the positioning of political parties (1996, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2010)", "comment": ""}
{"id": 12, "type": "table", "name": "cabinet", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "information about cabinets", "comment": "see documentation of table 'view_cabinet' for information about cabinet definition"}
{"id": 13, "type": "table", "name": "info_variable", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "description of variables in ParlGov database tables", "comment": null}
{"id": 19, "type": "table", "name": "country", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "country data with links to other data sets", "comment": null}
{"id": 20, "type": "table", "name": "external_commissioner_doering", "data_source": "doering", "description": "members of the European Union's College of Commissioners", "comment": ""}
{"id": 21, "type": "table", "name": "party_change", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "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", "comment": ""}
{"id": 27, "type": "view", "name": "viewcalc_election_parameter", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "calculated parameters about parliamentary elections -- see list of variables for further details", "comment": "Parameters are calculated by an R script at irregular intervals. Results for parties from party family 'none' (esp. 'no party affiliation' and 'others' parties) are removed from calculation (see Taagepera 1997; Gallagher/Mitchel 2005, 598-606)."}
{"id": 28, "type": "table", "name": "external_party_huber_inglehart", "data_source": "huber", "description": "party position data from Huber/Inglehart (1995)", "comment": ""}
{"id": 29, "type": "table", "name": "party", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "party information with links to data sets (ParlGov external) that contain political positons of parties", "comment": ""}
{"id": 30, "type": "table", "name": "party_name_change", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "information on official party names in case a party was renamed or if the official name is only used in shortened form  ", "comment": null}
{"id": 34, "type": "table", "name": "info_table", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "description of ParlGov database tables", "comment": null}
{"id": 35, "type": "table", "name": "election", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "information about a parliamentary election", "comment": "see documentation of  'view_election' for information about included parties"}
{"id": 37, "type": "table", "name": "external_party_cmp", "data_source": "cmp", "description": "list of parties from the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) data set", "comment": ""}
{"id": 41, "type": "table", "name": "info_data_source", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "list of references for ParlGov coding", "comment": null}
{"id": 45, "type": "table", "name": "external_party_euprofiler", "data_source": "euprofiler", "description": "list of parties from the EU Profiler (Trechsel/Mair 2009)", "comment": ""}
{"id": 48, "type": "table", "name": "info_id", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "definitions for all id variables without a separate table", "comment": "Most id variables have only a limited number of entries and are included into this table."}
{"id": 52, "type": "table", "name": "view_party", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "Party information and merge table for various external data sets on party positions. (main view)", "comment": "Imputation of missing party positions by mean values for party family."}
{"id": 53, "type": "table", "name": "view_election", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "Election results for national and European Parliament elections. (main view)", "comment": "Includes vote share and number of seats of all parties that won seats in a democratic post-war election. For some countries, all parties that won more than one percent of the votes and the respective number of votes are included."}
{"id": 54, "type": "table", "name": "view_cabinet", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "Cabinet and opposition parties in parliament with their seat strength at each instance of government formation. (main view)", "comment": "new cabinets are defined for (I) any change in the set of parties holding cabinet membership; (II) any change in the identity of the prime minister; (III) any general election; (IV) any substantively meaningful resignation"}
{"id": 55, "type": "table", "name": "external_party_ees", "data_source": "ees", "description": "list of parties from the European Election Study (2009)", "comment": ""}
{"id": 56, "type": "table", "name": "external_party_ray", "data_source": "ray", "description": "list of parties from Ray (1999)", "comment": ""}
{"id": 64, "type": "table", "name": "party_family", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "additional party families for a party", "comment": "The major party family category is coded in the 'party' table. This table includes additional categories such as regional parties, types of special issue parties, anti-system parties etc."}
{"id": 69, "type": "table", "name": "viewcalc_parliament_composition", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "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')", "comment": ""}
{"id": 71, "type": "table", "name": "viewcalc_country_year_share", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "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", "comment": ""}
{"id": 73, "type": "table", "name": "politician_president", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "Party-affiliated heads of state. Short-term acting presidents are not included.", "comment": ""}
{"id": 74, "type": "view", "name": "view_variable", "data_source": "parlgov", "description": "documentation of variables in main data tables (party, election, cabinet)", "comment": ""}