Congressbr: An R Package for Analyzing Data from Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate
| Autor: | Guilherme Jardim Duarte, Danilo Freire, Robert Myles McDonnell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Cultural Studies
lcsh:Latin America. Spanish America History Sociology and Political Science Literature and Literary Theory 050204 development studies Chamber of Deputies Geography Planning and Development ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING Development lcsh:Social Sciences Political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Multidisciplinary Data operations General Arts and Humanities lcsh:F1201-3799 05 social sciences L243 Politics of a specific country/region 0506 political science lcsh:H R package Anthropology Political Science and International Relations General Economics Econometrics and Finance Humanities |
| Zdroj: | Latin American Research Review, Vol 54, Iss 4 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 1542-4278 0023-8791 |
| Popis: | 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. Resumo Nesta nota de pesquisa, apresentamos o congressbr, um pacote para R para obtencao de dados das duas casas legislativas do Brasil. O pacote contem funcoes intuitivas que permitem aos pesquisadores fazer buscas no API da Câmara de Deputados e do Senado Federal brasileiros, realizar tarefas de limpeza de dados, e gravar informacoes em um formato adequado para analises futuras, simplificando tarefas anteriormente dificeis. O congressbr baixa dados sobre legisladores, projetos de lei submetidos e aprovados, comissoes na Câmara e no Senado, alem de outras informacoes de interesse para cientistas sociais de diversas areas. Trazemos uma breve exposicao das caracteristicas principais do pacote e demostramos como usa-lo por meio de exemplos praticos. |
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