Data on the South Korean Congress (1948-2016)

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With support from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University, data on over 63,900 legislative bills and 4,700 unique legislator-terms in South Korea from 1948 to 2016 (the 1st to 19th Congress) were collected and categorized through web scraping and supervised machine learning.

• Information for legislative bills includes: congress number, bill title, proposal dates, decision dates, bill category, decision, sponsors, co-sonsors, proponents, committees

• Information for legislators includes: name, gender, age, education, election types, (former) occupations, congress number, district, party, electoral competitors (and their biographical information)

• Data also include information on congress size, and ratio of female legislators

As the first project to use these data, Josh Ryan (USU) and I examine the effects of electoral rules on legislative behavior of female and male lawmakers.