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28th Austrian National Council: Prior Experiences as MPs.

Who speaks for how long in the National Council of Austria’s Parliament? And who respects the relevant time limits?

23 Oct 2024

Calls to Order in Austria’s Parliament

Whenever a speaker in the National Council uses e.g. foul language and violates the ‘dignity of the house’, the president of the National Council is tasked with issuing a…

25 Sep 2024

Professional politicians and their position on electoral lists

Austria

elections

Electoral lists in Austria include next to the name of each candidate also their profession. How prevalent are candidates who are politicians by profession and where are…

9 Jul 2024

Austrian National Council: Time limits of speeches, and other ramblings…

Austria

parliament

r-bloggers

Who speaks for how long in the National Council of Austria’s Parliament? And who respects the relevant time limits?

19 Jun 2024

State Elections 2023: Municipal electoral performance and COVID vaccination rates

Austria

COVID

elections

How does the electoral performance of parties and the COVID vaccination status on the municipal level correlate? A look at the three most recent state elections in Austria.

24 Apr 2023

2023 State Elections in Salzburg - A look at data extracted from the electoral lists

Austria

elections

How to to scrape content from the electoral lists, and analyze data pertaining to age, regional and gender composition.

21 Apr 2023

Parliament’s new API - How to access data on MPs

Austria

API

What is the gender composition of Austria’s Nationalrat? How did it evolve over time? Who are the longest serving MPs? This post details how to answer these and similar…

10 Feb 2023

‘The Professor and the Wolf’ - Number of parties in Austria

Austria

parties

A quick look at the number of registered political parties in Austria, prompted by the podcast “The Professor and the Wolf”.

10 Jan 2023

How to extract speeches held at Austria’s parliament

The website of the Austrian parliament provides transcripts of its sessions. This post details how to extract the statements given by MPs, members of government and other…

22 Nov 2021

How often do Austria’s Chancellors use the word ‘I’

Austria

regex

In a previous post, I detailed how to extract statements given in Austria’s parliament from the sessions’ transcripts. In this post, I use the extracted text - in…

21 Nov 2021

A look at the transcripts of the ‘Ibizia Inquiry’

Austria

Parliament

web scraping

In mid-June, the so-called ‘Ibiza Commission of Inquiry’ heard its last witness after almost one year at work. The commission had been established by the Austrian Parliament…

7 Oct 2021

Austria’s Covid legislation: The remarkable absence of authorship in public submissions to the consultative process

Austria

COVID

Austria’s legislative procedure provides for a consultative process which allows all citizens to make submissions in which they can raise their concerns as to a proposed…

16 Mar 2021

Austria’s Covid legislation: Duration of parliamentarian consultation period in comparison.

Austria

Corona

pdftools

A (relative) deep dive into the length of the public consultation period for draft bills in Austria, and whether three days for three pages are actually ‘normal’.

20 Feb 2021