Every single word - A new dataset including all parliamentary materials published in Germany

Creators:
Remschel, Tobias; Kroeber, Corinna
Publication Date:
2020
Dataset Description:

we introduce a unique dataset containing all written communication published by the German Bundestag between 1949 and 2017. Increasing numbers of scholars make use of protocols of parliamentary speeches, parliamentary questions, or the texts of legislative drafts in various fields of comparative politics including representation, responsiveness, professionalization and political careers, or parliamentary agenda studies. Since preparing parliamentary documents is rather resource intense, these studies remain limited to single points in time, types of documents and/or policy areas. The long time horizon and various types of documents covered by our new comprehensive dataset will enable scholars interested in parliaments, parties and representatives to answer various innovative research questions related to legislative studies. (2020-11-14)

The dataset is about 1.1 GB large.

Variables:
Name Description
number Running number
document_type Original description of document type
leg_period Legislative period
date Date at which the document was submitted.
author_i_001 – author_i_009 Name of author (institutions); the dataset includes documents jointly authored by up to nine distinct institutions.
author_mp_001 – author_mp_448 Name of author (MPs); the dataset includes documents jointly authored by up to 448 MPs.
author_mp_id_001 – author_mp_id_448 MP ID for Bergmann et al. (2018).
text Plain text without meta and author information as well as headers.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Companies:
University of Greifswald
Size:
1.1 GB
Formats:
XML; JSON
License:
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

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