Encompassing over 340,000 individual vote choices from 901 roll call votes across 15 legislative terms of the German Reichstag. It covers the period of the North German Confederation and the German Empire, compiled by author Frank M. Häge. The data includes meta-information on each vote's subject, date, and policy topic.
Use Cases
- Analyze legislative cohesion and party discipline by tracking individual vote choices across 901 roll calls.
- Study policy topic evolution over time using the Comparative Agendas Project coding scheme applied to each vote.
- Model voting behavior by correlating vote choices with meta-information like the date of the vote and type of act.
- Examine the legislative procedure by investigating vote patterns across different stages, such as proposal or amendment votes.
Strengths
- Comprehensive coverage of 901 roll call votes, the full universe for the 15 legislative terms.
- Over 340,000 individual vote choices provide a detailed record of legislative behavior.
- Includes rich meta-information for each vote, such as subject, date, act type, and policy topic code.
Limitations
- The dataset's temporal coverage ends in 1918, making it unsuitable for analyzing modern German politics.
- Without access to the specific column structure, advanced computational analysis may require additional data preparation.
Provenance
- Source
- Frank M. Häge Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Compilation of the full universe of roll call votes from historical parliamentary records.
- Time Range
- 1867 to 1918
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- German Empire (including the North German Confederation period)