The Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA): Transitioning to a Sustainable Public Good

选区级选举档案（CLEA）是一个网上资料库，收录了世界各地国家立法机构下院选举的详细资料。这一建议是请求一笔数额不大的一年赠款，以实施向新的组织模式的过渡。该档案目前包含来自129个国家的1494次选举的选区结果，可以帮助活跃的学者和政策实践者组成一个相当大的社区，他们可以进行具有重要现实意义的研究和发现。这些数据的使用者在制定更好的政策、设计制度和分配发展援助等领域开展工作。例如，当政府机构（无论是国内还是国外）与新兴民主国家打交道时，这种知识是必不可少的。这些用户对数据的长期保存和改进有利害关系。赠款使私人投资机构能够设计和安装新的治理结构（附章程）；制定适当的长期资金战略计划；并通过扩展档案的内容，着眼于最大限度地扩大其全球和历史覆盖范围，将档案扩大到在过渡发生时尽可能保持最佳形状的程度。通过提供广泛、高质量的地方选举结果数据，CLEA有助于增加政治学研究的广度和复杂性，为新颖的跨学科研究创造机会，并促进尖端空间分析工具的使用。结果是更好的，更丰富的见解与提高有效性。CLEA最近增加了新的产品：选区的地理编码信息和政党和选举的摘要数据。在资助年度，合作项目负责人将监督格式（在选择解决全球选举制度多样性的过程中），清理和发布新的选举数据，目的是最大限度地扩大档案的全球和时间覆盖范围，(2)制定关于扩大CLEA的战略决策，包括选区边界的地理编码，(3)建立与其他社会科学基础设施项目的联系，包括具有社会、经济和政治变量的跨国数据集，这些变量可以与选区层面的CLEA数据相匹配，并且(4)改进网站的功能。

General SummaryThe Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) is an online repository of detailed data from elections to national legislative lower houses around the world. This proposal is a request for a modest one-year grant to implement the transition of CLEA to a new organizational model. Currently containing results at the electoral district level of 1,494 elections from 129 countries, this archive helps a sizeable community of active scholars and policy practitioners who produce research and findings with important real-world implications. Users of the data work in areas such as formulating better policies, designing institutions, and allocating development assistance. For example, this sort of knowledge is essential to government agencies (both domestic and foreign) when they engage with new and emerging democracies. These users have a stake in the long-term preservation and improvement of the data. The grant enables the PIs to design and install a new structure of governance (with bylaws); develop an appropriate strategic plan for long-term funding; and augment the archive to a point where it is in the best possible shape when the transition occurs, by expanding the contents of the archive with an eye toward maximizing its global and historical coverage.Technical SummaryBy providing extensive, high-quality sub-national data on election results, CLEA helps increase the breadth and sophistication of political science research, creates opportunities for novel interdisciplinary inquiry, and facilitates the use of cutting-edge spatial analytical tools. The result is better, richer insights with improved validity. CLEA has recently added new products: geo-coded information on constituencies and summary data on parties and elections. During the grant year, the co-PIs will oversee the formatting (in the process making choices about addressing the diversity of electoral systems worldwide), cleaning, and posting of new elections data, with the aim of maximizing the global and temporal coverage of the archive, (2) make strategic decisions about expanding CLEA, including the geocoding of constituency boundaries, (3) establish links with other social scientific infrastructure projects, including cross-national datasets with social, economic, and political variables that could be matched up to CLEA data at the constituency level, and (4) improve the functionality of the website.