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

选区级选举档案馆(CLEA)是一个在线储存库，存储了从世界各地的选举到国家立法下院的详细数据。这项提议是要求提供一笔不多的一年赠款，以实施CLEA向新的组织模式的过渡。这份档案目前收录了129个国家1,494次选举的选区一级的结果，帮助了大量活跃的学者和政策实践者，他们的研究和发现对现实世界具有重要影响。这些数据的用户在制定更好的政策、设计机构和分配发展援助等领域开展工作。例如，当政府机构(无论是国内的还是国外的)与新兴的民主国家打交道时，这类知识是必不可少的。这些用户与数据的长期保存和改进息息相关。这笔赠款使私人投资机构能够设计和建立新的治理结构(附附例)；为长期资金制定适当的战略计划；并通过扩大档案的内容以最大化其全球和历史覆盖面，将档案扩大到发生过渡时的最佳状态。技术摘要通过提供关于选举结果的广泛、高质量的次国家数据，CLEA帮助增加政治学研究的广度和复杂性，为新的跨学科调查创造机会，并促进尖端空间分析工具的使用。结果是更好、更丰富的洞察力和更好的效度。CLEA最近增加了新的产品：关于选区的地理编码信息以及关于政党和选举的摘要数据。在赠款年期间，共同绩效指标将监督新选举数据的格式化(在处理世界各地选举系统多样性的过程中)、清理和张贴新的选举数据，目的是最大限度地扩大档案的全球和时间覆盖面，(2)作出关于扩大CLEA的战略决定，包括对选区边界进行地理编码，(3)与其他社会科学基础设施项目建立联系，包括具有可与选区一级的CLEA数据相匹配的社会、经济和政治变量的跨国家数据集，以及(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.