The heads of government dataset
The Heads of Government dataset version 2.0 (16 april, 2024) provides summary information about the ideological orientation of heads of government (left, center, or right, with separately provided information about religious orientation) in 33 states in Western Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region between 1870 and 2023.
We ask users of the dataset to cite the following information: Brambor, Thomas, Johannes Lindvall, Ann-Ida Gyllenspetz, Annika Stjernquist. (2024). Heads of Government dataset (version 2.0, 16 April 2024). University of Gothenburg.
The Heads of Government project is described in more detail in Brambor, T., & Lindvall, J. (2018). The Ideology of Heads of Government, 1870-2012. European Political Science, 17(2), 211-222.
The dataset is available in the leader-year and country-year formats and there is both a .dta and .csv version. We also provide a combined research note and codebook with variable descriptions and summary information about the updates in version 2.0.
Download the data:
Research note and codebook
Leader-year .dta
Leader-year .csv
Country-year .dta
Country-year .csv
We ask users of the dataset to cite the following information: Brambor, Thomas, Johannes Lindvall, Ann-Ida Gyllenspetz, Annika Stjernquist. (2024). Heads of Government dataset (version 2.0, 16 April 2024). University of Gothenburg.
The Heads of Government project is described in more detail in Brambor, T., & Lindvall, J. (2018). The Ideology of Heads of Government, 1870-2012. European Political Science, 17(2), 211-222.
The dataset is available in the leader-year and country-year formats and there is both a .dta and .csv version. We also provide a combined research note and codebook with variable descriptions and summary information about the updates in version 2.0.
Download the data:
Research note and codebook
Leader-year .dta
Leader-year .csv
Country-year .dta
Country-year .csv