PPDB in the News
June 2022: PPDB Round 2 Presentation for OECD Expert Group on Open Government Data
Susan Scarrow introduced the PPDB project and discussed the challenges of gathering data on political parties in a session on “Open Data as an Essential Element of Democratic Systems”.
September 2019: PPDB Panel at ECPR General Conference in Wroclaw, Poland
An overflow crowd attended this session, chaired by Thomas Poguntke with Karina Pedersen as discussant. See the publications page for details on the papers presented.
Spring 2018: New PPDB -based Article on Party Members
In “The consequences of membership incentives: Do greater political benefits attract different kinds of members?”, Susan Achury, Susan Scarrow, Karina Kosiara-Pedersen and Emilie van Haute use PPDB data to explore how parties’ membership rules affect the types of members parties attract.
September 2017: New Blogpost for Democratic Audit UK
In a new blogpost for the Democratic Audit UK, Paul Webb, Thomas Poguntke and Susan Scarrow compare the role of party members play in decision-making within the 122 countries of the PPDB Round 1a.
Summer 2017: Project on Catalonia Parties uses PPDB coding
OPCAT – the Observatory of Catalonia Political Parties – has launched a website which provides detailed information on both the organization and the electoral representation of political parties in Catalonia. The organizational data for this project were collected using the PPDB coding.
Political Party Database Project: Successful Launch Conference of Database and new Book!
On May 4th 2017 the Political Party Database Project successfully launched its database introducing to public party organizational data from 19 countries and 122 parties. The conference was held in the Haus der Universität in Düsseldorf, Germany and welcomed 90 national and international guests: party researchers, fellow political scientists, practitioners, and students discussed the project’s current and future impact. The project leaders Prof. Thomas Poguntke (Heinrich Heine University), Prof. Susan E. Scarrow (University of Houston, Texas, US), and Prof. Paul D. Webb (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK), who introduced the project and presented some of the major insights of their book, are pleased with the successful event. “We are proud that our database has been so well received by our target group. We hope for the same success for our book and regard the positive feedback as an invitation to continue our work on the database” summarized the local host, Prof. Thomas Poguntke, chair of the Düsseldorf Party Research Institute. On Friday, May 5th, the international research team held a closed workshop to discuss the future of the project, especially the next round of collecting data. The project aims for more cases, announcing data from Latin America (Brazil, Chile and Mexico), Japan, South Korea and Romania.