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

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    • Subject Terms:
      BRAZILIAN politics & government; LEGISLATIVE bodies; LEGISLATORS; SOCIAL scientists; LEGISLATION
    • Abstract:
      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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
    • Abstract:
      Nesta nota de pesquisa, apresentamos o congressbr, um pacote para R para obtenção de dados das duas casas legislativas do Brasil. O pacote contém funções 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 informações em um formato adequado para análises futuras, simplificando tarefas anteriormente difíceis. O congressbr baixa dados sobre legisladores, projetos de lei submetidos e aprovados, comissões na Câmara e no Senado, além de outras informações de interesse para cientistas sociais de diversas áreas. Trazemos uma breve exposição das características principais do pacote e demostramos como usá-lo por meio de exemplos práticos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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