Parliamentary text.
Open. Linked. Worldwide.
ParlText is an open corpus of parliamentary speeches and enacted laws, built on the ParlLawSpeech data standard. Version 1.1 covers four Central European legislatures — more are planned.
ParlText 1.1: Four Central European legislatures.
Speeches and laws are linked by date, agenda, and speaker so a debate and the resulting law can be read together — country by country, or pooled across all four. More legislatures are planned for future releases.
Speeches and laws — linked.
ParlText combines parliamentary floor speeches and enacted laws into a single linked corpus. Records carry dates, speakers, and agenda IDs that follow the ParlLawSpeech standard, so a debate and the resulting law can be read together — and statistics are comparable across jurisdictions.
The v1.1 release spans four Central European parliaments from 1990 onward; the framework is designed to onboard any legislature. Bill data is not yet part of the published Dataverse release.
CC0 1.0 on Harvard Dataverse.
All released versions live on the
ParlText collection at Harvard Dataverse
under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication. Speech
files ship as .CSV and .RDS; law files
ship as .tab and .RDS.