smartmonitor - The Swiss Legislative Database
The smartmonitor database provides the scientific community with basic data on the Swiss federal parliament. It is an open-access database, maintained by the Political Research Network Politools.Please note: Look up here (www.smartmonitor.ch) for open-data web analyses of the Swiss Parliament.
Click on a link below in order to download one of the data export files. For more detailed information about the content of the files before downloading please refer to the 'Documentation' menu.
Select an export to download:
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Voting behavior of parliamentary party groups (April 14, 2013)
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Voting behavior of members of the parliament (April 14, 2013)
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Context data on bills (April 14, 2013)
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Context data on votes (April 14, 2013)
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Members of the parliament and smartvote answers (April 14, 2013)
General terms of use
All data exports are free of charge. Please note, however, the legal limitations applying to data usage: The data is for scientific/analytical purpose only. Commercial usage of any kind is not allowed. If the data is used for analytical purposes outside basic research (e.g. for commissioned studies/reports, articles in newspapers/magazines, or for contributions in the electronic media), the database provider is entitled to charge a moderate fee which will be reinvested in the development of the smartmonitor project. We strongly appeal to your fairness: please contact in this case the project team in advance.Politools, the operator of the smartmonitor database, excludes warranty regarding completeness and/or accuracy of the provided data. Users are aware that the operator disclaims liability in any context.
In publications please cite the data source as follows:
smartmonitor - The Swiss Legislative Database, http://www.smartmonitor-database.ch, accessed [date].
