v1.7 – Bugfixes

This release

• adds constituencies for the latest legislature of Austria
• fills some missing age values in France, Italy, Portugal and Romania
• produces a more lightweight version of the parlnet.csv file.

The data documentation will return by release 2.0.

v1.6 – Additional data

This release adds data for the unicameral chambers of Slovakia and Portugal, which introduce a new package dependency to rvest.

The repository now builds 117 networks from approximately 434 years of data.

v1.5 – Improvements and bugfixes

This release

• fixes minor bugs in some of the descriptive network-level attributes for Finland, France, and Hungary, and removes the dependency to readr for Switzerland
• removes all dependencies to igraph and tnet by losing the weighted centrality and modularity measures, which can be computed separately from the raw network data
• removes the unique dependency to downloader for Norway, which is replaced by a dependency to httr
• improves the code for Belgium, which now covers ongoing legislature 54 of the lower chamber; the repository now also depends on httr

The repository now builds 105 networks from approximately 393 years of data.

v1.4 – Additional data and bugfixes

This release contains a complete rewrite of the code for Switzerland, which now includes the upper chamber (Council of States). The code takes advantage of the open data portal of the Swiss parliament to more accurately assign party affiliations.

The repository now builds 104 networks from approximately 393 years of data.

v1.3 – Full data and documentation

This release adds

• instructions to clone all GitHub submodules
• detailed notes on how to run the R code
• an archive of all networks produced by the repository (~ 15.5 MB)
• a CSV dataset of relevant measures

See the blog post “Using open legislative data to map bill co-sponsorship networks in 15 countries” for an overview of the project at this stage.

v1.2 – Additional data

This release adds 3 legislatures (12 years) to Norway. Thanks to Magnus Eide for letting me know that the open data portal of the Norwegian Storting had been updated (see this issue for the details).

The repository now builds 100 networks from approximately 377 years of data.

v1.1 – Additional data and bugfixes

This release

• adds committee sizes to the committee co-membership networks
• fixes a bug in the parsing of party affiliation of French senators

The replication material for the paper "Les réseaux de cosignatures législatives de quinze parlements européens" is based on this release.

v1.0 – First release

This release was built out of data collected between May 2014 and September 2014.

For a brief overview, see the following slides: "Legislative Cosponsorship Networks in Comparative Perspective".