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The data and full documentation can be found at  \n[https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/Political_Party_Database/](https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/Political_Party_Database/)  \nThe PPDB project is a collaborative cross-national data collection, supported by the volunteer efforts of hundreds of researchers from around the globe. Members of the PPDB team are committed to facilitating and producing cross-national comparative studies of political parties and their political roles and impacts.  \nThe project’s data collecting dimensions were established at a June 2011 meeting at the European University Institute in Florence, sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research. Participants at this meeting included Ingrid van Biezen, Petr Kopecký, Ruud Koole, Peter Mair, Thomas Poguntke, Susan Scarrow and Paul Webb. The data collection template was finalized ina series of consultations with the Round 1 data collection team (for more on Round 1, see Poguntke, Scarrow, Webb et al 2016) . The variables in the data set report on three general areas: party operational rules, party resources, and party decision-making practices. The operational variables code the “official story” version of party life, as reported in party statutes and other documents and on party websites. The decision-making variables report on the processes actually used in specific decisions, regardless of whether these followed the published rules. The 396 variables collected for Round 2 mostly replicate the Round 1 variables, thus maximizing their value for providing a picture of longitudinal change. The main exceptions to this are for the variables covering party decision-making variables, which include more forced-choice options in Round 2.  \nPPDB R2 covers parties in 51 countries. Whereas Round 1 focussed primarily on established parliamentary democracies, and intentionally built on the country selection in the Katz/Mair Handbook project (1992), Round 2 prioritized a much broader set of countries in terms of institutional arrangements, age of democracy, and geographic region. Most countries included in the second round fulfilled the highest standards for electoral democracies at the moment when the data were collected, but the R2 release includes several countries with regular party-based elections that do not meet these criteria (for example, Columbia, Ecuador, Malawi and Mexico) . 1 Including these countries helps in testing the applicability of the variables and the feasibility of data collection in a wider range of regimes, and sheds light on politics in those specific countries. However, researchers wishing to focus solely on parties in democratic societies may wish to exclude these and other cases that do not meet their preferred criteria for full electoral democracy.  \nFor most countries the data covers all parties represented in the lower house of the national legislature at the time when the data were collected. However, because the number of parties in each country varies widely, data collectors in each country could choose which parties to include based on their own data collection resources. For some countries the selection includes parties that did not hold legislative seats at the point when the data were collected. Round 2 data were  \n1 According to Freedom House scores for 2017.  \ncollected from 2017-2020 and cover rules and events immediately prior to the data collection (roughly 2014-2020) .  \nTable A1 lists the team leaders for all the Round 2 data collection. The PPDB website country pages provide a full lists of [team members:](team members: www.politicalpartydb.org)[ ](team members: www.politicalpartydb.org)[www.politicalpartydb.org](team members: www.politicalpartydb.org)  \nThe coordination of this research was generously supported b","cbCailLURIaqdfDg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailLURIaqdfDg","pdf",244288,"English","# Appendix 1\n## The Political Party Database Round 2\n## Data source, documentation, and collaboration\n## Data-collection dimensions and variable structure\n## Country coverage and selection rules\n## Time frame and coding scope\n## Team leaders and acknowledgements\n## References\n## Appendix Table 1","[{\"question\":\"What is PPDB R2 and when was it released?\",\"answer\":\"PPDB R2 is the Political Party Database Round 2. 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