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The repository contains a cleaned and pre-processed corpus of parliamentary debates from the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The corpus is accompanied by the metadata on elected representatives and their political parties. It covers the period of 1998-2018 (six complete terms) and counts over 127 thousand speeches.

The repository contains a cleaned and pre-processed corpus of parliamentary debates from the Croatian Parliament (Sabor). The corpus is accompanied by the metadata on elected representatives and their political parties. It covers the period of 2003-2020 (five complete terms) and counts over 500 thousand speeches.

The European Election Studies (EES) provide open-access datasets and studies covering several European countries from 1979 to 2024. The collection focuses on elections, voting behavior, political campaigns, media and social media, political elites, and party manifestos. These datasets support comparative and longitudinal research on European elections and political attitudes across countries. The EES is conducted […]

The 2019 Media Study provides a dataset on media coverage of European Parliament elections and EU-related news across ten EU countries. It contains coded content analysis of national news media, using methods and data sources comparable to earlier studies from 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014. The dataset enables comparative and longitudinal research on election coverage […]

This dataset presents EUSpeech (version 4), an updated dataset of 17,184 speeches from EU leaders (i.e., heads of government in 10 member states, EU commissioners, party leaders in the European Parliament, and ECB and IMF leaders) from 2007 to 2015. Version 3 contained a number of duplicate speeches, because some websites contained the same speeches […]

In 2022, GerParCor, the largest German-speaking corpus of parliamentary protocols, was published, covering three centuries of parliamentary debates at the national and federal levels. It made previously unavailable protocols digitally accessible and uniformly processable, with additional NLP preprocessing provided in XMI format. This paper significantly updates GerParCor by incorporating newly available protocols and previously uncovered […]

Database containing manifesto texts and content analytical annotations from more than 1000 parties from 1945 until today and covers over 50 countries. The Manifesto Corpus is a large, multilingual text corpus of over 3,200 machine-readable election programs, of which more than 2,000 are annotated at the quasi-sentence level, resulting in approximately 2 million machine-readable quasi-sentences. […]

ParlaMint provides open-access, multilingual datasets of parliamentary debates from 29 European countries and autonomous regions. The corpora are standardized and comparable, enabling cross-country and longitudinal research on parliamentary discourse, political communication, and agenda-setting. The project is particularly useful for research in political and social sciences, media and communication, history, and language studies.

The ParlLawSpeech dataset provides over 4 GB of machine-readable parliamentary texts, including 43,582 legislative bills, 28,124 laws, and more than 3 million plenary speeches from eight European parliaments spanning more than two decades. By bringing together these three types of parliamentary documents in a single, linked corpus, PLS enables researchers to study the entire legislative […]

ParlSpeech V2 contains complete full-text vectors of more than 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers, covering periods between 21 and 32 years. Meta-data include information on date, speaker, party, and partially agenda item under which a speech was held.

The dataset by Rauh, Christian (2022) includes an original full-text corpus of all 44,978 press releases that the European Commission has published between January 17, 1985, and January 8, 2021 (file: ‘EC-PressReleases_1985-2020_clean.RDS’). Note that this replication package is wrapped in an RStudio project (‘CommissionCommunication.Rproj’). Ideally you select all files, download them as a zip file, […]

The dataset by Rauh, Christian (2022) offers an original full-text corpus of all 13,618 speeches by EU Commissioners between 1985-04-11 and 2020-09-03 (10,953 of those in English) as well as word vectors from a 300 dims / 10-word context GloVe/SkipGram model of speeches in the House of Commons. The folder is wrapped as an RStudio […]

The dataset includes speeches by members of the German Bundestag from 2011 to 2020, measured through vocal pitch, considering MPs’ emotional engagement when discussing climate issues during certain period.

The dataset contains information on the universe of union-sponsored electoral candidates in British parliamentary elections throughout the 20th century, through candidates’ electoral outcomes and the role of union sponsorship in candidate selection and electoral performance, including variables related to sponsorship, constituencies, opponents, resources, and vote shares.

The repository contains a cleaned and pre-processed corpus of parliamentary debates from the National Assembly of Serbia. The corpus is accompanied by the metadata on elected representatives and their political parties. It covers the period of 1997-2020 (eight terms) and counts over 300 thousand speeches.

StateParl provides a standardized dataset of parliamentary speeches and session transcripts from all German state parliaments, covering 2000–2023. It includes full-text speeches and extensive metadata on sessions, speakers, parties, and mandates. The dataset supports comparative and longitudinal research on German parliamentary debates, political actors, and discourse.

**StateParl** comprises parliamentary speeches by members of parliament and government representatives from all 16 German state parliaments. The dataset contains over **16 million speech paragraphs** from plenary session transcripts covering **2000–2025**. It provides a coherent, machine-readable corpus with resolved speaker identities, grouped speeches, and rich metadata, enabling systematic computational analysis across disciplines.

The EuroParl-UdS corpus is a corpus consisting of parliamentary debates of the European Parliament enriched with metadata about the text and the speaker. It is presently available for English, German and Spanish and the data is in xml format. Plain text versions, filtered based on native speaker are also available. It contains texts of the […]

The PARTYPRESS Database compiles more than 250,000 published press releases from 68 parties in 9 European countries. The database covers the press releases of the most relevant political parties in these countries from 2010 onward. It provides a supervised machine learning classification of press releases into 21 unique issue categories according to a general codebook. […]