Congressbr: An R Package for Analyzing Data from Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate.

In this research note, we introduce congressbr, an R package for retrieving data from the Brazilian houses of legislature. The package contains easy-to-use functions that allow researchers to query the Application Programming Interfaces of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate, perform...

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Published in:Latin American Research Review Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 958 - 970
Main Authors: McDonnell, Robert Myles, Jardim Duarte, Guilherme, Freire, Danilo
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2019
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          McDonnell, Robert Myles
          Jardim Duarte, Guilherme
          Freire, Danilo
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          First Data Corporation, BR.
          JOTA, BR.
          Brown University, US.
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        Legislative bodies
        Legislators
        Social scientists
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        Brazilian politics & government
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          Brazilian politics & government
      ab: In this research note, we introduce congressbr, an R package for retrieving data from the Brazilian houses of legislature. The package contains easy-to-use functions that allow researchers to query the Application Programming Interfaces of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate, perform cleaning data operations, and store information in a format convenient for future analyses, making a previously difficult task fast and convenient. Congressbr downloads data on legislators, submitted and ratified law proposals, Senate and Chamber commissions, and other information of interest to social scientists across various fields. We outline the main features of the package and demonstrate its use with practical examples.
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