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The Comparative Legislators Database

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  • Göbel, Sascha
  • Munzert, Simon

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Knowledge about political representatives' behavior is crucial for a deeper understanding of politics and policy-making processes. Yet resources on legislative elites are scattered, often specialized, limited in scope or not always accessible. This article introduces the Comparative Legislators Database (CLD), which joins micro-data collection efforts on open-collaboration platforms and other sources, and integrates with renowned political science datasets. The CLD includes political, sociodemographic, career, online presence, public attention, and visual information for over 45,000 contemporary and historical politicians from ten countries. The authors provide a straightforward and open-source interface to the database through an R package, offering targeted, fast and analysis-ready access in formats familiar to social scientists and standardized across time and space. The data is verified against human-coded datasets, and its use for investigating legislator prominence and turnover is illustrated. The CLD contributes to a central hub for versatile information about legislators and their behavior, supporting individual-level comparative research over long periods.

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  • Göbel, Sascha & Munzert, Simon, 2022. "The Comparative Legislators Database," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 52(3), pages 1398-1408, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:52:y:2022:i:3:p:1398-1408_22
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    1. Willems, Evelien & Heylen, Frederik, 2023. "flempar: An R-package for analyzing data from the Flemish Parliament," SocArXiv 7qwvt, Center for Open Science.

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