Brazilian Congress

Patterns in the Brazilian congress voting behavior

The Brazilian Government House of Representatives maintains a public database, that contains legislative information since 1970. One type of information that is available are the records of bills. For each bill, the database gives a list of votes choices, state and party of each deputy, and a list of details about the bill itself like type, year, text of proposal, benches orientations and situation (a bill can be voted more than one time, in this work we will treat each votation as a single one). We retrieved more than 100000 bills (propList), where less than 1% was voted (propVotList) until November 2016.

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Our objective is detect regularity patterns of legislative behavior, institutional arrangements, and legislative outcome.

Raw data from: http://www2.camara.leg.br/transparencia/dados-abertos/dados-abertos-legislativo/webservices/proposicoes-1/proposicoes