Roll-Call Votes in the German Bundestag: A New Dataset, 1949–2013
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DOI: 10.1017/s0007123418000406
Abstract: This letter introduces a comprehensive data collection on roll-call votes (RCVs) in the German Bundestag between 1949 and 2013. RCVs are one of the most important data sources on parliamentary behavior. Beyond producing legislative output,… read more here.
Keywords: german bundestag; roll call; sieberer; call votes ... See more keywords
Petitioning the German Bundestag: Political Equality and the Role of the Internet
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DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsw009
Abstract: Petitions, as one of the most popular forms of political participation, offer citizens a bottom-up, comparatively low effort means to communicate their wishes to politicians and the public. This article analyses all steps of the… read more here.
Keywords: participation; petitioning german; german bundestag; role ... See more keywords
Mandate type, electoral safety, and defections from the party line: The conditional mandate divide in the German Bundestag, 1949–2013
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DOI: 10.1177/1354068819881637
Abstract: Research on mixed electoral systems provides inconclusive findings on the question whether members of parliament (MPs) elected in single-member districts are more likely to vote against the party line than MPs elected via closed party… read more here.
Keywords: mandate divide; party; party line; german bundestag ... See more keywords
The #BTW17 Twitter Dataset-Recorded Tweets of the Federal Election Campaigns of 2017 for the 19th German Bundestag
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DOI: 10.3390/data2040034
Abstract: The German Bundestag elections are the most important elections in Germany. This dataset comprises Twitter interactions related to German politicians of the most important political parties over several months in the (pre-)phase of the German… read more here.
Keywords: election campaigns; federal election; german bundestag; twitter ... See more keywords