README.md

This repository contains code to build cosponsorship networks from bills passed in the lower and upper chambers of the Romanian Parliament.

• interactive demo
• static plots
• more countries

HOWTO

Replicate by running make.r in R.

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.

DATA

Bills

• page -- the index page from which the bill was scraped
• url -- bill URL
• ref -- reference of the form "L1/03.02.2009" (includes the full date for most bills)
• name -- short title
• status -- when the bill passed, the reference of the law
• authors -- bill sponsor
• n_au -- total number of sponsors

Sponsors

The sponsors data has one row per sponsor-legislature.

• legislature -- legislature of activity
• url -- profile URL
• name -- sponsor name
• sex -- gender (F/M), imputed from birth information ("aleasă")
• born -- year of birth
• party -- political party, abbreviated
• party_dummy -- dummy indicating the presence of multiple party affiliations
• mdts_ca -- number of mandates in the lower chamber
• mdts_se -- number of mandates in the upper chamber
• nyears -- number of past mandates in the same chamber
• constituency -- constituency, as the string to its Wikipedia English entry
• photo -- photo, as a local filename
• type -- either "Deputat" or "Senator"