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Political Data Yearbook Interactive<\/a>\u00a0is a new source for data on election results, turnout and government composition for all EU and some non-European countries. It is basically an online version of the yearbooks that ECPR printed as part of the European Journal for Political Research for many years now.<\/p>\n

The interactive online tool has some (limited) visualization options and can export data in several formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Political Data Yearbook Interactive\u00a0is a new source for data on election results, turnout and government composition for all EU and some non-European countries. It is basically an online version of the yearbooks that ECPR printed as part of the European Journal for Political Research for many years now. The interactive online tool has some (limited) visualization options and can export data in several formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11,46],"tags":[215,244,492,493,659],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-ar","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":377,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=377","url_meta":{"origin":647,"position":0},"title":"Visualizing left-right government positions","date":"March 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"How does the political landscape of Europe change over time? One way to approach this question is to map the socio-economic left-right positions of the governments in power. 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