Join this webinar to explore the most comprehensive dataset on migrant voting and candidacy rights worldwide, covering 165 countries from 1960 to 2020.
Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants, both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing datasets either focus on only one of these categories, exclude candidacy rights, or have limited temporal and geographic scope.
The GLOBALCIT Dataset of Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) is the most comprehensive dataset on migrant suffrage to date. MER covers voting and candidacy rights for both non-citizen residents and non-resident citizens. The coding differentiates between different types (legislative, executive, referendum) and levels (local, regional, national) of elections, as well as a range of eligibility, access, and modality conditions attached to these rights. Overall, the dataset contains up to 488 indicators across 165 countries from 1960 to 2020. By offering unparalleled data coverage and transparency, MER facilitates the study of global trends in the political inclusion and exclusion of migrants, thus contributing to comparative political science, migration studies, and electoral policy analysis.
The dataset is publicly available in Cadmus, the EUI Data Repository, here. It includes a datafile in cvs format, a detailed Codebook and an accompanying Factbook containing the most relevant information on electoral rights for each country in the dataset.
The webinar will present core features of the dataset, first research results and discuss policy implications and future research agendas.
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