PEAR Data Explorer
Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR) covers members of parliament in authoritarian regimes worldwide since 1945. Explore who sits in authoritarian legislatures: their age, gender, party affiliation, and how many keep their seats from one term to the next.
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Each country shows the legislative term in office in the selected year. Historical states are drawn with the borders of their successor (e.g. the Soviet Union as Russia, Czechoslovakia as Czechia, Yugoslavia as Serbia); the German Democratic Republic cannot be drawn and appears only in the other views.
Each point is one legislative term, placed at the year of its election. Gaps mean no data for that term.
Choose a country to see its profile.
Values are shown only for terms with 95–105% coverage of the relevant information: gender for women MPs, age for mean age, party affiliation for opposition seat share and number of parties. Other values appear as “–”; point at (or tap) a dash in the table to see why.