behaviour because behavioural data was not available in an accessible format. By digitizing the parliamentary archives and compiling the data in a structured format we have create a comparatively rich dataset, which are made publically accessible for other researchers. In this research note we describe the dataset and data collection process, and provide some examples as how the data might be used in the growing quantitative literature on legislative behaviour.
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