{"id":46,"date":"2017-01-19T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2023-09-04T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T10:41:14","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2>Welcome to the Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database and the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database!<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>JUST PUBLISHED: NEW REFERENCE PUBLICATION FOR <strong>ITRVD VERSION #1<\/strong> in <em>Foreign Policy Analysis<\/em>. See <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/fpa\/orad023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>NEW REFERENCE PUBLICATION FOR <strong>PDVD VERSION #3<\/strong> published in the <em>Journal of Peace Research<\/em>. See <a href=\"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/?page_id=2\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PDVD and ITRVD serve dual purpose: As scholars of international politics, we are interested in an analysis of deployment votes and treaty ratification votes. By sharing the data we collected, we hope to stimulate further analyses. As citizens of countries that have participated in military missions, we consider the publication of deployment votes to be a contribution to the democratic control of security and defense policy. With our international treaty votes database, we hope to contribute to more transparency as to the dynamics of the politics of international agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>International Treaty Ratification Database<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">The Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database (PDVD) collects and shares data on parliamentary votes on the deployment of armed forces since 1990.<br>Since the end of the Cold War, democracies have been participating in military missions of various kinds, ranging from peacekeeping to war. These deployments have raised questions about their democratic legitimacy and parliamentary control in particular. In many democracies, deployments decisions are the exclusive competence of the government, and parliament is only informed. In a growing number of cases, however, such decisions have been put to a vote in parliament. PDVD documents and analyzes these votes.<br>At the moment, in version 2 of the dataset, PDVP documents 514 votes in plenaries for the period between August 1990 and December 2017 in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. You can check out our data <a href=\"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/?page_id=2\">here<\/a>.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">The International Treaty Ratification Database (ITRVD) collects and shares data on parliamentary-level and party-votes on international agreements since 1990. <br>According to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/worldtreatyindex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Treaty Index<\/a>, 75.000 treaties have been negotiated in the 20th century, most of them bilateral agreements. There has been a general trend towards strengthening the role of parliament in external relations, including the realm of treaty ratification. Hence, treaty ratification has become subject to politicization and party politics. States differ widely, however, in the procedures of domestic scrutiny of international agreements and the degree of formal or informal involvement of parliament and parties.<br>The ITRVD project has gathered data on the parliamentary scrutiny of international agreements in the Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the USA. You can check out our data <a href=\"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/?page_id=248\">here<\/a>. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database and the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database! JUST PUBLISHED: NEW REFERENCE PUBLICATION FOR ITRVD VERSION #1 in Foreign Policy Analysis. See here. NEW REFERENCE PUBLICATION FOR PDVD VERSION #3 published in the Journal of Peace Research. See here. PDVD and ITRVD serve dual purpose: As scholars of international politics, we are interested in an analysis of deployment votes and treaty ratification votes. By sharing the data we collected, we hope to stimulate further analyses. As citizens of countries that have participated in military missions, we consider the publication of deployment votes to be a contribution to the democratic control of security and defense policy. With our international treaty votes database, we hope to contribute to more transparency as to the dynamics of the politics of international agreements. Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database International Treaty Ratification Database The Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database (PDVD) collects and shares data on parliamentary votes on the deployment of armed forces since 1990.Since the end of the Cold War, democracies have been participating in military missions of various kinds, ranging from peacekeeping to war. These deployments have raised questions about their democratic legitimacy and parliamentary control in particular. In many <a href=\"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8RCrH-K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50,"url":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/?page_id=50","url_meta":{"origin":46,"position":0},"title":"Publications","date":"2017-01-22","format":false,"excerpt":"Peer-Reviewed Articles B\u00f6ller, Florian. 2021. \"Vandenberg Vanished: US Congress and the Politicization of Military Interventions.\" Parliamentary Affairs. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/pa\/gsab023. Coticchia, Fabrizio, and Valerio Vignoli. 2020. \u201cPopulist Parties and Foreign Policy: the Case of Italy\u2019s Five Star Movement\u201d. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 22 (3): 523-541. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177%2F1369148120922808. Haesebrouck, Tim, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":248,"url":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/?page_id=248","url_meta":{"origin":46,"position":1},"title":"International Treaty Ratification Votes Database (ITRVD), version #1.0","date":"2020-05-29","format":false,"excerpt":"The International Treaty Ratification Votes Database (ITRVD) includes data on 6,010 parliamentary votes on the ratification of international treaties for the period between 1990 and 2019 in Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the USA. We provide the following files and documentation for version\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2,"url":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/?page_id=2","url_meta":{"origin":46,"position":2},"title":"Parliamentary Deployment Votes Data","date":"2016-05-10","format":false,"excerpt":"Our data are freely available to scholars and a broader public interested in how political parties vote on military missions. Our aim is to extend the datasets to include additional countries and to update the datasets regularly. Version 3 Version 3 of the database (V3, July 2021) contains data on\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8,"url":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/?page_id=8","url_meta":{"origin":46,"position":3},"title":"Who We Are","date":"2017-01-19","format":false,"excerpt":"We are a group of political scientists with a shared interest in the role of parliaments in foreign and security policy. Project Leadership Project Initiator: Wolfgang Wagner Principal Investigators: Falk Ostermann, Wolfgang Wagner Steering Group: Anna Herranz-Surrall\u00e9s, Juliet Kaarbo, Falk Ostermann, Wolfgang Wagner \u00a0 Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database List of\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":55,"url":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/?page_id=55","url_meta":{"origin":46,"position":4},"title":"Literature","date":"2017-01-25","format":false,"excerpt":"Literature on parliaments, deployment votes and military missions: Born, Hans, and H\u00e4nggi, Heiner, eds. (2004). The \u2018Double Democratic Deficit\u2019: Parliamentary Accountability and the Use of Force Under International Auspices. Aldershot: Ashgate. Dieterich, Sandra, Hummel, Hartwig, and Marschall, Stefan (2015). \u2018Bringing democracy back in: The democratic peace, parliamentary war powers and\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deploymentvotewatch.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}