werk.statt.codes

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{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?

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.

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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’

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’

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’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.

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

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

22 Dec 2020

Vienna Elections 2020: Parties’ ads on facebook

social media

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

19 Dec 2020

Adding background images to maps.

How to create ggplot maps with mapbox images as background.

25 Nov 2020

Recreating NYT election map

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

18 Nov 2020

Vienna Elections 2020: Age profile of electoral candidates

An empirical look at candidates’ age.

10 Oct 2020

Austrian Parliament: MPs transparency and conflict of interest report

OCR

web scraping

Analysis of Austria MP’s transparency reports.

21 Jul 2020

Update on Google mobility reports on Austria

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

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

28 Apr 2020

Corona Virus in Austria: Updates on data

Preliminary look at the COVID data on Austria.

23 Apr 2020

Segregation in Vienna’s primary schools?