Charges of Malfeasance, Preference Votes, Government Portfolios, and Characteristics of Legislators, Chamber of Deputies, Republic of Italy, Legislatures I-XI, 1948-1992

Part 1: The dataset contains preference votes received by Christian Democratic (DC) and Socialist Party (PSI) candidates in the Italian elections for Legislatures I-XI to the Chamber of Deputies (1948 to 1992). During this period, Italy used a relatively pure version of open-list proportional representation.

Part 2: The dataset on parliamentary malfeasance, contains information on all requests by the Italian judiciary to remove parliamentary immunity (so-called 'richieste di autorizzazioni a procedure', commonly abbreviated in Italian as RAP) from deputies during the first 11 postwar legislatures (elected in 1948 through 1992), including the nature of the judicial charges, the partisan affiliation of the deputy charged, the deputy's electoral district and legislature, whether immunity was lifted or not, etc. Part 3: The dataset on government portfolios lists all ministers and undersecretaries for Legislatures I-XI, Republic of Italy. It includes information on whether the minister was drawn from the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate, or outside the legislature, as well as in which government the individual served. Part 4: The combined dataset on malfeasance, preference votes of DC and PSI candidates, government portfolios, and all seated deputies merges the three datasets above and incorporates the full universe of deputies.