Who speaks for how long in the National Council of Austria’s Parliament? And who respects the relevant time limits?
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…
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…
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.
How to to scrape content from the electoral lists, and analyze data pertaining to age, regional and gender composition.
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…
A quick look at the number of registered political parties in Austria, prompted by the podcast “The Professor and the Wolf”.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’.
An analysis of public submissions to bill seeking to amend Austria’s epidemic law.
Analysis of the facebook ads placed in the run-up to the 2020 Vienna city elections.
How to create ggplot maps with mapbox images as background.
How to re-create election maps by the NYT with ggplot.
An empirical look at candidates’ age.
Analysis of Austria MP’s transparency reports.
This is a short update on my previous post dealing with Google’s mobility reports on Austria during the Covid-19 crisis.
Analysis of Google’s mobility reports following introduction of Covid lockdown in March 2020.
Preliminary look at the COVID data on Austria.
Drawing on public data from Vienna’s school administration I look at how many percentages of pupils in each primary school subsequently leave for schools offering eventually…
Creating and analyzing a new dataset on the voting behavior of BiH’s members of the House of Representatives.
A look at the distribution of preference votes casted in the 2019 general elections.
How well are women represented in Austria’s new parliament. A comparative look at the female share of MPs.