This repository contains code to build cosponsorship networks from bills passed in the Slovakian Parliament.
Replicate by running make.r in R.
The data.r script downloads information on bills and sponsors (using a pretty inefficient method that works, despite the huge pain of having to deal with ASP 'doPostBack' forms). All photos should download fine.
The build.r script then assembles the edge lists and plots the networks, with the help of a few routines coded into functions.r. Adjust the plot, gexf and mode parameters to skip the plots or to change the node placement algorithm.
legislature-- legislature numberid-- bill master idcpt-- bill legislature-specific iddate-- date of introduction of the bill (yyyy-mm-dd)title-- titlestatus-- bill statusauthors-- bill sponsors, using standardized names
The sponsor names are standardized by converting them to ASCII, which moves all diacritics before or after the letter (e.g. "L. Dzur'ak"). This is necessary to match the bills dataset to the sponsors dataset.
The sponsors data have multiple entries for each sponsor (one per legislature in which the sponsor sat).
legislature-- legislature of activityid-- numeric id; points to the profile URLname-- full name, without titles like "PhDr." or "Ing."nyears-- seniority (time in office since legislature 1), in yearstitle-- stuff like "PhDr." or "Ing."first-- first namelast-- last nameparty-- political party, abbreviatedborn-- year of birthplace-- place of residencecounty-- constituency (many missing in legislature 2, full otherwise)photo-- photo URL, a variation of the profile URL stored inidsex-- gender (F/M), imputed from first and family names ('á')uid-- standardized name that matches those in the bill listings
Notes -- constituencies are standardized to Wikipedia Slovenčina handles, and genders have been checked to ensure that males with a final 'a' in their first name are coded as males (e.g. Béla Bugár).