R/legislation.R

In titaniumtroop/aRlegislation: A Dataset of Arkansas Legislation from 2001-2019

#' Arkansas legislation from 2001 through the 2019 regular session.
#'
#' A dataset for Arkansas legislation. The format is a nested tibble; the
#' nesting variables are the beginning year of each two-year legislative cycle
#' and the type (and number, if applicable) of the session. There are three
#' tibbles within each cycle/session. The first contains information about all
#' acts passed during the relevant cycle/session, including the text of the act,
#' the title and subtitle, the act and bill number, and the partisanship of the
#' act (i.e., whether it was passed by a single party, a committee, or in a
#' bipartisan fashion). The second tibble provides demographic information about
#' the lawmakers who sponsored legislation during the cycle session, including
#' variables such as chamber, party, seniority (a negative integer, since lower
#' numbers are better), committee membership, district, prior public service,
#' veteran status, and church affiliation. The third table contains act
#' sponsorship information in a simple list of sponsor name and act number.
#'
#'
#' @format A nested tibble with 27 rows and 5 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{cycle}{year of the legislative cycle}
#'   \item{session}{session type and number}
#'   \item{acts}{tibble of act number, title, subtitle, text, and partisanship}
#'   \item{lawmakers}{tibble of demographic information about elected representatives}
#'   \item{sponsorship}{tibble of act number and sponsor}
#' }
#'
#' @source \url{https://github.com/titaniumtroop/aRlegislation/}
"legislation"