Democratic Responsiveness Project Datasets

The 'MIP data monthly' data set contains imputed values for the proportion of Canadians (in subsets of Canadians) identifying 27 different issues as the most important each month from October 1965 to November 2009. The imputed values are for the average Canadian, the Progressive Conservative Party base, the Liberal Party base, and the Reform Party / Conservative Party base. The imputation procedure is described in: Pickup, Mark and Colin Whelan. 2014. "Differentiating the issue priorities of NDP supporters." In The NDP. Eds. David Laycock and Lynda Erikson. UBC Press. This data has also been used in: Pickup, Mark, and Sara B. Hobolt. 2015. “The Conditionality of the Trade-off between Government Responsiveness and Effectiveness: The Impact of Minority Status and Polls in the Canadian House of Commons.” Electoral Studies 40: 517-530. The 'legislative success Canada' data set includes measures of the legislative success, popularity and minority governments status of Canadian Federal governments from the beginning of the 24th Parliament to the end of the 40th. This includes 42 sessions of Parliament and spans the temporal period 1958 to 2008. A description of the data and its use can be found in: Pickup, Mark, and Sara B. Hobolt. 2015. “The Conditionality of the Trade-off between Government Responsiveness and Effectiveness: The Impact of Minority Status and Polls in the Canadian House of Commons.” Electoral Studies 40: 517-530.