{"table_name": "view_party", "type": "integer", "name": "cmp", "description": "Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) party ID (Budge ea. 2001; Klingemann ea. 2006)", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_party", "type": "integer", "name": "euprofiler", "description": "EU Profiler (Trechsel/Mair 2009) party ID", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_party", "type": "integer", "name": "ees", "description": "European Election Study (2009) party ID", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_party", "type": "integer", "name": "castles_mair", "description": "Castles/Mair (1983) expert survey party ID --  combined from number of country and number of party entry in data table (pp. 75--83)", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_party", "type": "integer", "name": "huber_inglehart", "description": "Huber/Inglehart (1995) expert survey party ID -- combined from number of country and number of party entry in Appendix 2 (pp. 92--108)", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_party", "type": "integer", "name": "ray", "description": "Ray (1999) expert survey party ID -- combined country ID and party ID", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_party", "type": "integer", "name": "benoit_laver", "description": "Benoit/Laver (2006) expert survey party ID -- row number of first party entry in original data set", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_party", "type": "integer", "name": "chess", "description": "Chapel Hill expert survey series (CHESS) party ID (Hooghe ea. 2010; Marks/Steenbergen 2007)", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_party", "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_party", "type": "integer", "name": "party_id", "description": "party id", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_party", "type": "integer", "name": "family_id", "description": "ParlGov unique party family identifier -- see table 'info_id' for a description", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "integer", "name": "seats", "description": "number of seats won by party", "comment": "Seats coded for alliance members if information available. Coded as 0 for parties that won no seats and as missing value for electoral alliances if seats are coded at the level of alliance members."}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "integer", "name": "seats_total", "description": "total number of seats", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_election", "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_election", "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_election", "type": "integer", "name": "previous_parliament_election_id", "description": "'election_id' of previous national parliament election in the country", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "integer", "name": "previous_cabinet_id", "description": "'cabinet_id' of incumbent government", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "integer", "name": "party_id", "description": "ParlGov unique party identifier. Variable name 'id' in 'party' table and 'party_id' in all other tables.", "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": "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": ""}