Introducing {risAT}: An R package to access with Austria’s Legal Information System (RIS)
Austria
[object Object]

{risAT} is an R package that wraps the Austrian RIS (Rechtsinformationssystem) Open Government Data API, making it easier to work with Austrian jurisprudence in R.

23 Jul 2026
How do Parties vote in the Austrian National Council?
Austria
parliament
ParlAT

The latest release of the {ParlAT} package introduces the ability to extract parties’ votes on items discussed in the third reading of the Austrian National Council. This…

4 Jun 2026
28th Austrian National Council: Prior Experiences as MPs.
Austria
parliament
r-bloggers

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
Austria
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
R

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
R

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
Austria
text analysis
web scraping
regex

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
Similarity of public submissions to Austria’s amendment of the epidemic law
Austria
COVID
OCR
stringr
web scraping

An analysis of public submissions to bill seeking to amend Austria’s epidemic law.

22 Dec 2020
Vienna Elections 2020: Parties’ ads on facebook
Austria
social media
elections

Analysis of the facebook ads placed in the run-up to the 2020 Vienna city elections.

19 Dec 2020
Adding background images to maps.
maps
Austria
sf
snapbox
mapbox

How to create ggplot maps with mapbox images as background.

25 Nov 2020
Recreating NYT election map
Austria
COVID
OCRh
stringr
web scraping

How to re-create election maps by the NYT with ggplot.

18 Nov 2020
Vienna Elections 2020: Age profile of electoral candidates
Austria
elections
OCR
regex
reactable
gt

An empirical look at candidates’ age.

10 Oct 2020
Austrian Parliament: MPs transparency and conflict of interest report
Austria
OCR
web scraping

Analysis of Austria MP’s transparency reports.

21 Jul 2020
Update on Google mobility reports on Austria
Austria
climate
COVID
shiny

This is a short update on my previous post dealing with Google’s mobility reports on Austria during the Covid-19 crisis.

8 Jun 2020
Google’s Mobility reports: changes to mobility patterns during Covid-19 lock-down in Austria
COVID
Austria

Analysis of Google’s mobility reports following introduction of Covid lockdown in March 2020.

28 Apr 2020
Corona Virus in Austria: Updates on data
Austria
COVID

Preliminary look at the COVID data on Austria.

23 Apr 2020
Segregation in Vienna’s primary schools?
Austria
plotly
crosstalk

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…

2 Mar 2020
Bosnia: Voting behavior of MPs in the House of Representatives
Bosnia
OCR
web scraping

Creating and analyzing a new dataset on the voting behavior of BiH’s members of the House of Representatives.

7 Feb 2020
Austrian General Elections 2019: Preference votes
elections
stringr
tidyr::pivot
Austria

A look at the distribution of preference votes casted in the 2019 general elections.

20 Nov 2019
Women in Parliament
women

How well are women represented in Austria’s new parliament. A comparative look at the female share of MPs.

24 Oct 2019
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