A Note on the Online Component

Abstract

This data collection is completely new and is not built on older databases developed at the MZES. Of course, it is not ‘new’ in the sense of creating data that did not exist before. The data collected in this handbook and on the Dataset almost entirely come from the official statistics of the countries included and from statistical offices of intergovernmental organizations. But I believe that the surplus value of a systematic historical-comparative data collection is obvious.