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War of Words: The Competitive Dynamics of Legislative Processes

<p><strong>Update: A&nbsp;newer version of this dataset is available <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4709248#.YXesJS8itqs">here</a>.</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>It comes with&nbsp;features extracted from the MEPs, the edits, and the dossiers, such as the <strong>nationality</strong> of MEPs, the <strong>type of law </strong>being edited, and the <strong>text of the edits</strong>. Check it out!</p> <p>This upload contains the dataset presented and used in the paper:</p> <blockquote> <p>Kristof, V., Grossglauser, M., Thiran, P., <a href="https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/275473/"><em>War of Words: The Competitive Dynamics of Legislative Processes</em></a>, The Web Conference, April 20-24, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Read&nbsp;Section 2.2 of the paper to learn more about the European legislative process.&nbsp;</strong>The code to process and use the dataset can be found on <a href="https://github.com/indy-lab/war-of-words">GitHub</a>.</p> <p>The dataset is split into two legislature periods of the European Parliament, the 7th (<strong>war-of-words-ep7.txt</strong>) and the 8th (<strong>war-of-words-ep8.txt</strong>) legislature.&nbsp;Here is a snippet to load the dataset (for EP7 in this example) in Python:</p> <pre><code class="language-python">import json with open('path/to/war-of-words-ep7.txt') as f: dataset = [json.loads(l) for l in f.readlines()] </code></pre> <p>In the two text files, each line is a data point representing a <em>conflict between edits</em>. It is encoded as a JSON list of dictionaries, where each dictionary is an edit.&nbsp;Each edit has the following structure:</p> <pre><code class="language-json">{ 'edit_id': 163187, // Unique edit identifier. 'accepted': True, // Label. 'dossier_ref': 'ENVI-AD(2012)487738', // Reference to dossier (see below). 'authors': [ // List of authors. { 'id': 4550, // Unique MEP identifier (see below). 'name': 'Jill EVANS', // MEP name. 'rapporteur': False // Whether the MEP is rapporteur. }, ], }</code></pre> <p>You can assume that:</p> <ul> <li>Each data point has at least one edit.</li> <li>If there is only one edit, then it is <em>in conflict with the status quo&nbsp;</em>(see Section 4 of the paper).</li> <li>If there are two or more edits in conflict, then they are all in conflict against each other&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;they are in conflict with the status quo (see Section 4 of the paper).</li> <li>At most one edit is accepted in&nbsp;each data point.</li> <li>In each legislature, each edit has a unique identifier.</li> <li>There are no timestamps associated with edits (see Section 3 of the paper).&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>The <strong>dossier_ref</strong>&nbsp;can be used to get more information on the dossier. It is formatted as <strong>COMM-TYPE(YEAR)PENUMBER </strong>(this follows the notation of file names used by the Parliament Secretariat), where</p> <ul> <li><strong>COMM</strong>&nbsp;is the <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/about/introduction">committee</a> identifier (4 capital letters)</li> <li><strong>TYPE</strong>&nbsp;is either <strong>AD</strong>&nbsp;(opinion) or <strong>A{7,8}</strong>&nbsp;(report for EP7 or EP8, see Section 2.2 of the paper)</li> <li><strong>YEAR</strong>&nbsp;is the year the dossier has been voted</li> <li><strong>PENUMBER</strong>&nbsp;is the &quot;PE number&quot;, a&nbsp;document identifier used by the European Parliament</li> </ul> <p>You can browse the Parliament documents&nbsp;to find details about the dossier for <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/archives/7/document-search">EP7</a> and <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/archives/8/document-search">EP8</a>&nbsp;(the PE number field should be enough).</p> <p>The&nbsp;parliamentarians (MEPs, for Member of the European Parliament) have a unique identifier that you can use to get more details about them on the Parliament website: Go to&nbsp;<strong>https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/MEP_ID</strong>, where&nbsp;<strong>MEP_ID&nbsp;</strong>is the id of the MEP of interest.</p> <p>This dataset is vowed to become richer:&nbsp;I will add more features, as I am able to extract them.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Don&#39;t hesitate to <a href="mailto:victor.kristof@epfl.ch?subject=Question%20about%20the%20War%20of%20Words%20dataset">reach out to me</a> if you have any questions!</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>To cite this work:</p> <pre><code>@inproceedings{kristof2020war, author = {Kristof, Victor and Grossglauser, Matthias and Thiran, Patrick}, title = {War of Words: The Competitive Dynamics of Legislative Processes}, year = {2020}, booktitle = {Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020}, pages = {2803–2809}, numpages = {7}, location = {Taipei, Taiwan}, series = {WWW '20} }</code></pre> <p>&nbsp;</p>