Formal Comparisons of Legislative Institutions: Ideal Points from Brazilian Legislatures

McDonnell, Robert Myles

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“…Examples 13 Other simple statistics can be similarly easily constructed in the R language for use with the data provided by congressbr. of such ideal-point analyses with Brazilian legislative data include Desposato (2006) and McDonnell (2017). These types of analyses can be easily carried out with congressbr.…”

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“…Ideal points such as these can be produced quickly and easily from the voting records provided by congressbr. Data from the two houses may also be combined as in McDonnell (2017) to facilitate interesting comparisons over time and across the institutions. As may be seen from the R code in the online appendix, visualization of the results of this analysis produces the most verbose code-the actual requesting of data and its preprocessing before modeling necessitate comparatively few lines of R code.…”

Section: Spatial Models Of Voting Behaviormentioning

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Congressbr: An R Package for Analyzing Data from Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate

McDonnell

Duarte²,

Freire

2019

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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In this research note, we introduce congressbr, an R package for retrieving data from the Brazilian houses of legislature. The package contains easy-to-use functions that allow researchers to query the Application Programming Interfaces of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate, perform cleaning data operations, and store information in a format convenient for future analyses, making a previously difficult task fast and convenient. Congressbr downloads data on legislators, submitted and ratified law proposals, Senate and Chamber commissions, and other information of interest to social scientists across various fields. We outline the main features of the package and demonstrate its use with practical examples. Nesta nota de pesquisa, apresentamos o congressbr, um pacote para R para obtenção de dados das duas casas legislativas do Brasil. O pacote contém funções intuitivas que permitem aos pesquisadores fazer buscas no API da Câmara de Deputados e do Senado Federal brasileiros, realizar tarefas de limpeza de dados, e gravar informações em um formato adequado para análises futuras, simplificando tarefas anteriormente difíceis. O congressbr baixa dados sobre legisladores, projetos de lei submetidos e aprovados, comissões na Câmara e no Senado, além de outras informações de interesse para cientistas sociais de diversas áreas. Trazemos uma breve exposição das características principais do pacote e demostramos como usá-lo por meio de exemplos práticos.

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Section: Spatial Models Of Voting Behaviormentioning

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Section: Spatial Models Of Voting Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Congressbr: An R Package for Analyzing Data from Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate

McDonnell

Duarte²,

Freire

2019

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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“…Examples of such ideal-point analyses with Brazilian legislative data include Desposato (2006) and McDonnell (2017). ese types of analyses can be easily carried out with congressbr.…”

Section: Spatial Models Of Voting Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ideal points such as these can be produced quickly and easily from the voting records provided by congressbr. Data from the two houses may also be combined as in McDonnell (2017) to facilitate interesting comparisons over time and across the institutions. As may be seen from the R code in the Appendix, visualization of the results of this analysis produces the most verbose code -the actual requesting of data and its pre-processing before modeling necessitate comparatively few lines of R code.…”

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congressbr: An R Package for Analysing Data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate

McDonnell¹,

Duarte²,

Freire³

2017

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A data-driven network approach for characterization of political parties’ ideology dynamics

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Political ideology is a major social phenomena that plays a crucial role in the formation and dynamics of ideologically-aligned social groups. This alignment gives rise to some of the most powerful social structures in modern democracies, the political parties. Due to the influence and importance of political parties in society, estimating their ideology is an active topic in political science research. However ideology is a very subjective phenomena and existing quantitative methods for ideology estimation are susceptible to a variety estimation issues, specially when applied in multi-partisan systems. In this work, we developed a data-driven network model for political ideology estimation based on partisan relationships established from party-switching politicians. The model is applied to the Brazilian case and yields results consistent with existing literature in the Brazilian political scenario while addressing data scarcity issues in existing methodologies.

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Formal Comparisons of Legislative Institutions: Ideal Points from Brazilian Legislatures

Cited by 3 publications

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Congressbr: An R Package for Analyzing Data from Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate

Congressbr: An R Package for Analyzing Data from Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate

congressbr: An R Package for Analysing Data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate

A data-driven network approach for characterization of political parties’ ideology dynamics

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