Dataset Party Ideology and Public Spending - 16 CEE countries

This dataset contains data for 16 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, in 6 categories:
-public spending (total and specific for 4 distinctive categories: social transfers, environment, public safety, and education)
-ruling party ideology (left-right scale)
-economic variables (GDP growth, unemployment, IMF, public debt, etc)
-political variables (coalition type & size, electoral system, electoral cycles etc)
-demography (share of population under 15 and over 65)
-contextual (EU and international integration, corruption perceptions, openness of the economy, conflict legacy, etc).

Period: 1990-2017
Countries: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania, Montenegro, (North) Macedonia.