| get_political {legislatoR} | R Documentation |
Fetch 'Political' table
Description
Fetches political data of legislators for the specified legislature. Requires a working Internet connection.
Usage
get_political(legislature)
Arguments
legislature |
A character string specifying the three-letter country code of the legislature for which data shall be fetched. Currently one of ‘aut’, ‘can’, ‘cze’, ‘esp’, ‘fra’, ‘deu’, ‘irl’, ‘sco’, ‘gbr’, ‘usa_house’, or ‘usa_senate’. |
Format
Data frame in long format with columns (varies by legislature):
pageid: Wikipedia page ID identifying a legislator's Wikipedia biography (of class ‘integer’).
session: Legislative period (of class ‘integer’).
party: A legislator's party affiliation (of class ‘character’). See https://github.com/saschagobel/legislatoR for the full form of abbreviated party names and english translations of non-english party names
constituency: A legislator's constituency (of class ‘character’).
constituency2: A legislator's constituency (upper level, if applicable, of class ‘character’).
constituency_id: ID of a legislator's constituency (of class ‘character’).
session_start: Date the legislative period started (of class ‘Date’).
session_end: Date the legislative period ended (of class ‘Date’).
service: A legislator's period of service in days during the respective session (of class ‘integer’)
government (or similar): Indicator of a legislator's majority status in parliament (of class ‘logical’). Further columns with extensions of this might exist.
leader (or similar): Indicator of a legislator's leader status in parliament (of class ‘logical’). Further columns with extensions of this might exist.
Value
A data frame with columns as specified above.
Source
Wikipedia, https://www.wikipedia.org/
Czech Republic Parliamentary Members Archive https://public.psp.cz/sqw/fsnem.sqw?zvo=1
Spain Parliamentary Members Archive https://www.congreso.es/es/busqueda-de-diputados
Examples
# Get entire 'Political' table for the Czech Poslanecka Snemovna
cze_political <- get_political(legislature = "cze")
tibble::glimpse(cze_political)
# Get 'Political' table for female DSP party members of the Czech Poslanecka Snemovna
cze_political_subset <- dplyr::semi_join(x = dplyr::filter(cze_political,
party == "ODS"),
y = dplyr::filter(get_core(legislature = "cze"),
sex == "female"),
by = "pageid")
tibble::glimpse(cze_political_subset)