congressbr: An R Package for Analysing Data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate

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.

Las legislaturas en la disputa por las políticas públicas en dictadura y democracia

“…Honorable Cámara de Diputados de la Nación, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Disponible en: https://www.hcdn.gob.ar/proyectos/index.html; paquete "congressbr" para R (McDonnell et al, 2017). tivos para invitar a actores afectados por los proyectos en discusión a dar sus opiniones en las comisiones.…”