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The ParlSpeech V2 data set: Full-text corpora of 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of nine representative democracies

The ParlSpeech V2 data set: Full-text corpora of 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of nine representative democracies

Stefan
Open Dataset
Creators: Rauh, Christian; Schwalbach, Jan
Publication Date: 2020
Creators: Rauh, Christian; Schwalbach, Jan

This dataset is an extensive collection of parliamentary speeches from nine representative democracies, offering valuable insights into legislative discourse across different political systems. ParlSpeech V2 contains complete full-text vectors of more than 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, covering periods between 21 and 32 years. Meta-data include information on date, speaker, party, and partially agenda item under which a speech was held. The accompanying release note provides a more detailed guide to the data (2020-03-11). The speeches span from 1987 to 2018 and the full dataset has a size of 1,5 GB.

It is organized into separate R Data files for each country, with each file containing:​

  • debate: Title of the debate (if available).​

  • party: Name of the party to which the speaker belongs.​

  • text: Full text of the speech as recorded by the parliament.​

  • SPEAKER: Name of the individual delivering the speech.

The CEPS EurLex dataset: 142.036 EU laws from 1952-2019 with full text and 22 variables

The CEPS EurLex dataset: 142.036 EU laws from 1952-2019 with full text and 22 variables

Stefan
Open Dataset
Creators: Borret, Camille; Laurer Moritz
Publication Date: 2020
Creators: Borret, Camille; Laurer Moritz

The dataset contains 142.036 EU laws – almost the entire corpus of the EU’s digitally available legal acts passed between 1952 – 2019. It encompasses the full texts of these legal documents, providing researchers and analysts with extensive material for legal, historical, and policy-related studies. The dataset covers the three types of legally binding acts passed by the EU institutions: 102.304 regulations, 4.070 directives, 35.798 decisions in English language. The dataset was scraped from the official EU legal database (Eur-lex.eu) and transformed in machine-readable CSV format with the programming languages R and Python. It was collected by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) for the TRIGGER project (https://trigger-project.eu/). We hope that it will facilitate future quantitative and computational research on the EU. Covering EU legal acts from the year 1952 up to August 2019, this dataset provides a historical perspective on the evolution of EU legislation over nearly seven decades. It has a size of 1,5 GB.

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