The dataset comprises information on the governments formed in fifteen East and West European countries, which have or had semi-presidential regimes for some time between 1945 and Dec 2003. The countries included in the dataset are Austria, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine. The dataset comprises information on the governments formed in fifteen East and West European countries, which have or had semi-presidential regimes for some time between 1945 and Dec 2003.The countries included in the dataset are Austria, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

The unit of observation in this dataset is a government. The data collection method was the use of primary and secondary sources. All sources are detailed in the codebook. The primary sources include constitutional documents, Keesing's Contemporary Archives, and election results from individual country-specific documents and websites. The data is numeric.