{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "text", "name": "country_name_short", "description": "three letter abbreviation of country -- iso alpha code", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "text", "name": "country_name", "description": "name of country", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "date", "name": "election_date", "description": "Date the election took place. If the election lasted for several days, we code the last date.", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "date", "name": "start_date", "description": "start of cabinet defined as the date of the first event that determines a new cabinet", "comment": "For some (continuation) caretaker cabinet, the date is set to election date."}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "text", "name": "cabinet_name", "description": "label/name of cabinet consisting of the family name of the prime minister and a roman numeral if he/she headed more than one cabinet (ascii characters only)", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "binary", "name": "caretaker", "description": "caretaker cabinet with a limited legislative mandate: non-partisan, provisional, technical or continuation (tree month rule) cabinet", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "binary", "name": "cabinet_party", "description": "cabinet member vs. opposition party", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "binary", "name": "prime_minister", "description": "indicates if the party fills the prime minster position", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "integer", "name": "seats", "description": "number of seats in parliament", "comment": "In versions prior to ParlGov 11/07, the number of seats was based on seats won at the last election (table 'election_result'). It does now take into account changes in parliament -- see documentation for table 'viewcalc_parliament_composition'."}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "integer", "name": "election_seats_total", "description": "seats total in parliament", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "text", "name": "party_name_short", "description": "party abbreviation", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "text", "name": "party_name", "description": "original name of party with native characters (this field may require a change of character encodings on your local computer)", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "text", "name": "party_name_english", "description": "English name of party", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "real", "name": "left_right", "description": "0--10 scale mean value in left/right dimension with data from Castles/Mair 1983, Huber/Inglehart 1995, Benoit/Laver 2006 and CHES 2010", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "integer", "name": "country_id", "description": "ParlGov unique identifier for each country. Other tables refer to this variable as 'country_id'.", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "integer", "name": "election_id", "description": "ParlGov unique identifier for national and EP elections. Other tables refer to this variable as 'election_id'.", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "integer", "name": "cabinet_id", "description": "ParlGov unique identifier for each cabinet. Variable name 'id' in 'cabinet' table and 'cabinet_id' in all other tables.", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "integer", "name": "previous_cabinet_id", "description": "'cabinet_id' of previous national cabinet in the country", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_cabinet", "type": "integer", "name": "party_id", "description": "ParlGov unique party identifier. Variable name 'id' in 'party' table and 'party_id' in all other tables.", "comment": ""}