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DR. DANIELE CARAMANI works at the Mannheim Centre for Social Research (MZES), a body affiliated to the University of Mannheim. The institute is one of the leading social science bodies in the world, and has its own data archive EURODATA, which is widely considered as unparalleled. He received his degree and masters from the University of Geneva and his PhD from the European University Institute of Florence. His most recent publications include (with Stefano Bartolini and Simon Hug) Parties and Party Systems, A bibliographic guide to the literature on parties and party systems in Europe since 1945 on CD-ROM', London. He is currently Professor in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Florence and Urbino. The Societies of Europe is an 8-title series of historical data handbooks and accompanying CD-ROM sets on the development of Europe from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The series is a product of the Mannheim Centre for Social research, a body dedicated to comparative research on Europe and one of the leading social research institutes in the world. It is a collection of datasets giving a clear and systematic study of long term developments in European society. The data is presented statistically and is clearly comparative. The Societies of Europe is the most comprehensive data series available on Western European social issues. Each book is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing datasets not included in the text enabling users to manipulate the data as wanted. Information is available in different programmes (Excel, SPSS and SAS) and in data structures for analysing, and building time series. This data handbook and CD-ROM records the results of all legislative elections held in 18 European countries collected at the level of single constituency for the first time. The collection of results has been made completely machine-readable according to standard rules across countries, historical periods and electoral systems. Zusammenfassung The Societies of Europe is an 8-title series of historical data handbooks and accompanying CD-ROM sets on the development of Europe from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The Societies of Europe is the most comprehensive data series available on Western European social issues. Preface Tables Figures PART I Introduction Criteria for the Collection of Data Appendix 1. The Structure of Country Chapters A Comparative European Electoral History Appendix 2: The Coding System Appendix 3: The Data Matrix Election Statistics: A Historical Comment Electoral Systems Bibliography PART II: COUNTRY CHAPTERS Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland UK CD-ROM Statistical Data to Accompany Analysis in the Book ...
