Database of parliamentary speeches in Ireland, 1919–2013

Herzog, Alexander; Mikhaylov, Slava

doi:10.1109/fads.2017.8253189

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“…Our first application focuses on parliamentary debates in the Irish parliament. Legislative scholars examined the Irish case in great detail (Herzog and Benoit ; Herzog and Mikhaylov ; Lauderdale and Herzog ; Lowe and Benoit ) to compare various textual approaches in estimating positions and government dissent. Ireland is also an example of a weak legislature with restricted opportunities for parties to scrutinize and modify bills (Martin and Vanberg ).…”

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Multilingual Sentiment Analysis: A New Approach to Measuring Conflict in Legislative Speeches

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Lowe

Wäckerle

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Comparative scholars of legislative politics continue to face the challenge of measuring a key theoretical concept: conflict at the level of legislative bills. We address this challenge with a multilingual sentiment-based approach and show that such a measure can effectively capture different types of parliamentary conflict. We also demonstrate that an automated translation of the dictionary yields valid results and therefore greatly facilitates comparative work on legislatures. Our applications show that a sentiment approach recovers government-opposition dynamics in various settings. the use of a simple, translatable sentiment dictionary opens up the possibility of studying legislative conflict in bill debates across languages and countries.

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Multilingual Sentiment Analysis: A New Approach to Measuring Conflict in Legislative Speeches

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Lowe

Wäckerle

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“…Our analysis includes 27 Irish budget debates for the time period from 1987 to 2013. 9 We retrieved all speeches from DPSI: Database of Parliamentary Speeches in Ireland (Herzog and Mikhaylov, 2013), a complete collection of all speeches from the Irish parliament that also includes speakerspecific information, such as party affiliations, constituencies, and office positions.…”

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The Most Unkindest Cuts: Speaker Selection and Expressed Government Dissent during Economic Crisis

Herzog

Benoit²

2015

The Journal of Politics

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“…For Ireland, we retrieved speeches from "DPSI: Database of Parliamentary Speeches in Ireland" (Herzog and Mikhaylov 2013) …”

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Measuring Political Positions from Legislative Speech

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Herzog²

2016

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Table A1 provides an overview of the speeches and debates included in our analysis. In an average electoral period, there were 8,707 speeches across 779 debates in the Irish Dáil and 7,464 speeches across 584 debates in the US Senate. The 112th and 113th Senates stick out at as the two least productive Senates in terms of number of speeches and debates, which is most likely the result of legislative gridlock after the Republican party took over the House in the 2010 election.The average debate in our data set consists of 12 speakers, ranging from a minimum of 5 speakers (our lower threshold) to as many as 73 speakers. At the level of individual speeches, we find an average of 683 and 552 words per speech and legislature. The longest individual speech in our data set is 37,610 words long, which is senator Ted Cruz's (TX-R) 21-hour filibuster speech in September 2013. Sources Additional Analysis of Classification and Uncertainty versus WordfishIn the main text, we show plots of the relationships between individual TDs Wordshoal score and coalition membership, and uncertainty estimates for the 30th Dáil. In Figure A1 we show the corresponding plots for the 29th Dáil. Figure A1: The association between the estimated positions of each legislator and their status as members of the coalition versus opposition, with correlation and local linear smooth, under Wordfish (left) and our approach (right), for the 29th Dáil. In the bottom row, we show the 95% intervals associated with the estimates for each legislator under Wordfish (left) and Wordshoal (right). A5 Dail 29Type of debate Beta root mean square Analysis of Variation in Disagreement by Legislative StageThe Wordshoal model facilitates assessments of the relative extent to which different kinds of debates align with the estimated common dimension. The greater the magnitude of the β j , the greater the extent to which the common dimension predicts speech variation in a given debate. As our summary statistic for β j , we use the root mean square of the β j , weighted by the number of speeches in each debate speeches j .In the paper, we utilize this statistic only for the US Senate, here we assess it across different types of parliamentary debates in Ireland. The majority of debates in our data take place during the second reading of a bill, which is the most important legislative stage after which a bill is formally accepted or rejected. The second most common type are motions, which are an instrument of parliament to scrutinize the work of the government. This includes ad hoc motions on topical issues, seasonal adjournment debates, and (less frequently) A6 motions of confidence in the government or in individual cabinet members (Gallagher 2010). Figure A2 shows the weighted root mean square of β j for motions, second-stage bills, and for debates during the remaining legislative stages, which we group together because of the small number of observations at each stage. We find high government-opposition division during debates on motions, which are mostly used by...

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Database of parliamentary speeches in Ireland, 1919–2013

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

Multilingual Sentiment Analysis: A New Approach to Measuring Conflict in Legislative Speeches

Multilingual Sentiment Analysis: A New Approach to Measuring Conflict in Legislative Speeches

The Most Unkindest Cuts: Speaker Selection and Expressed Government Dissent during Economic Crisis

Measuring Political Positions from Legislative Speech

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