Update of the Legislative Production Database

• Grant number: 21/07956-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2021
• End date: February 28, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - State and Government
• Principal Investigator: Fernando de Magalhães Papaterra Limongi
• Grantee: Luiz Gabriel Natividade Lima
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/14525-6 - Political institutions, patterns of executive-legislative relations and government capacity, AP.TEM

Abstract

Since its first edition, the project "Political Institutions, Interaction StandardsExecutive-Legislative and Governing Capacity" organizes and updates data collection offederal legislatures in order to update Cebrap Legislative Database. Over the duration of the project, the bank has been incorporating more data and becoming increasingly complex. Currently, the Cebrap Legislative Database contains several tables,which can be thought of as smaller databases. Together they constitute fourlarge groups of main data. The other tables make up smaller and more specific databases, divided according to the type of information, its location and methodology ofcollect. The four groups of data cited above contain relevant information about the1) Brazilian legislative production, 2) the Union Budget, 3) the career of parliamentarians and, finally, 4) roll-call votes. The other tables make up smaller and more specific databases, divided according to the type of information, its location and methodology ofcollect. The four groups of data cited above contain relevant information about the1) Brazilian legislative production, 2) the Union Budget, 3) the career of parliamentarians and, finally, 4) roll-call votes. The information contained in these banksare crucial to the characterization of the functioning of Coalition Presidentialism andby their nature, they require constant updating.The Legislative Database is a source of data for the numerous fronts ofresearch linked to the Thematic, but also for national researchers andinternational organizations that request the data. Throughout 2019, data from the Legislative Bankwere requested more than 40 times by graduate students linked to programsfrom national and international institutions, such as UnB, FGV, Unifesp, UFMG, UFSC,among others and Emory University, Texas A&M University, Minnesota University,respectively. Our data were also requested by teachers like MarianaBatista (UFPE) and Simone Diniz (UFSCar).The organization of these data is undoubtedly one of the greatest contributions of thethematic project and has systematically collaborated to open new frontsresearch on the Brazilian political system and for comparative studies. Becausenature of the legislative data, it is necessary that there is constant updating of theinformation, through the process of data collection and organization.