table_name,type,name,description,comment
view_party,text,country_name_short,three letter abbreviation of country -- iso alpha code,
view_party,text,country_name,name of country,
view_party,text,party_name_short,party abbreviation,
view_party,text,party_name_english,English name of party,
view_party,text,party_name,original name of party with native characters,field may require a change of character encodings on your local computer
view_party,text,party_name_ascii,original name of party without special characters  (this one may be easier to handle with in statistical packages),
view_party,text,family_name_short,party family abbreviation,
view_party,text,family_name,party family name,
view_party,real,left_right,"0--10 scale mean value in left/right dimension with data from Castles/Mair 1983, Huber/Inglehart 1995, Benoit/Laver 2006 and CHES 2010",
view_party,real,state_market,0--10 scale mean value in 'regulation of the economy' dimension with data from Benoit/Laver 2006 and CHES 2010,
view_party,real,liberty_authority,0--10 scale mean value in 'libertarian/authoritarian' dimension with data from Benoit/Laver 2006 and CHES 2010,
view_party,real,eu_anti_pro,"0--10 scale mean value in 'EU integration' dimension with data from Ray 1999, Benoit/Laver 2006 and CHES 2010",previously variable 'eu_pro_contra' in ParlGov 11/07
view_party,integer,cmp,Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) party ID (Budge ea. 2001; Klingemann ea. 2006),
view_party,integer,euprofiler,EU Profiler (Trechsel/Mair 2009) party ID,
view_party,integer,ees,European Election Study (2009) party ID,
view_party,integer,castles_mair,Castles/Mair (1983) expert survey party ID --  combined from number of country and number of party entry in data table (pp. 75--83),
view_party,integer,huber_inglehart,Huber/Inglehart (1995) expert survey party ID -- combined from number of country and number of party entry in Appendix 2 (pp. 92--108),
view_party,integer,ray,Ray (1999) expert survey party ID -- combined country ID and party ID,
view_party,integer,benoit_laver,Benoit/Laver (2006) expert survey party ID -- row number of first party entry in original data set,
view_party,integer,chess,Chapel Hill expert survey series (CHESS) party ID (Hooghe ea. 2010; Marks/Steenbergen 2007),
view_party,integer,country_id,ParlGov unique identifier for each country. Other tables refer to this variable as 'country_id'.,
view_party,integer,party_id,party id,
view_party,integer,family_id,ParlGov unique party family identifier -- see table 'info_id' for a description,