Party issue positions and legislative actions on war, corruption and inequality in Ukraine, 2002 -2018

The purpose of this project was to advance the theory, methods, and empirical base for studying the relationship between party ideology, parliamentarian biography, and legislative action in Ukraine over multiple elections and on the major issues facing the country by (a) developing a general model of the determinants of the legislative behavior of parties and parliamentarians, (b) enhancing quantitative measures of ideology from party platforms for all major parties and across time, (c) building a database of party ideology, parliamentarian biography, and legislative roll call voting.This project contains legislative roll call voting data on issues dealing with (1) Military Conflict and Policies dealing with Conflict-Affected and Internally Displaced Persons, (2) Anti-Corruption Legislation and (3) Gender Inequality. The PI integrated the roll call voting data with the East European Parliamentarian and Candidate data (EAST PaC) for Ukraine (https://doi.org/10.18150/6JBD0H), 2002 – 2014. EAST PaC Ukraine contains the demographic and electoral biographies of the near universe of parliamentarians and candidates (the units of analysis). A detailed description of EAST PaC is available in the book, Towards Electoral Control in Central and Eastern Europe (IFiS Publishers 2016) edited by Joshua K. Dubrow and Nika Palaguta (free to the public via electoralcontrol.org). These data allow the researchers to investigate how parliamentarians voted for the legislation dealing with the aforementioned groups of population during last 15 years and throughout parliamentary convocations. The data is compatible with the EAST PaC data which allows perform statistical analyses for testing hypotheses of specific interest for the researchers.