***General Introduction***
OGP voting cases metadata
The dataset is the overall sample of countries that have reportedly practiced voting for choosing Open Government Partnership (OGP) commitments during their co-creation processes in 2014 through 2020.
Author: Dmytro Khutkyy
Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies
ECePS ERA Chair in e-Governance and Digital Public Services
University of Tartu, Estonia.
Corresponding author: Dmytro Khutkyy
Contact Information:
dmytro.khutkyy@ut.ee
Lossi 36-328,
51003 Tartu
Estonia

***Methodological information***
The data was collected by semi-automatic text analysis of the Open Government Partnership Independent Reporting Mechanism reports obtained from the Open Government Partnership website:
Tha data was structured by manual qualitative content analysis according to the variables specified further.
https://www.opengovpartnership.org/our-members/
The data was collected in the framework of the CIVICS project:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101038044
Comprehending Internet Voting Impact on Open Government: An International Comparative Study (CIVICS), grant No 101038044.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

***Data specific information***
Variable names and definitions:
Regions – conventional regions for grouping countries (Europe, Commonwealth, Latin America)
Countries – countries that practiced voting for choosing OGP commitments during their co-creation processes.
National action plans – the years, during which formal the evaluated OGP government plans were designed.
Timeline – the period when voting for choosing OGP occurred.
Voting format – the format of voting for OGP commitments (online voting or unclear).

*** Sharing and Access information***
The data is being made public in the spirit of open science.
Creative Commons license
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. CC BY-NC-SA.