New publication – Miklós Sebők, Csaba Molnár és Anna Takács: Levelling up quantitative legislative studies on Central-Eastern Europe

New publication – Miklós Sebők, Csaba Molnár és Anna Takács: Levelling up quantitative legislative studies on Central-Eastern Europe

Sebők, MiklósMolnár, Csaba and Takács, Anna. 2025. Levelling up quantitative legislative studies on Central-Eastern Europe:: Introducing the ParlText CEE Database of Speeches, Bills, and Laws. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. 10, 4 (Feb. 2025), 106–125.

The study introduces ParlText CEE, a newly available database covering nearly 1.9 million text vectors and metadata from parliamentary speeches, bills, and laws for Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia for the period from 1990–1991 to 2022–2024. The database standardises legislative and speech records, enhancing research accessibility and comparability. This resource offers valuable opportunities for scholars studying legislative processes and political discourse in Central-Eastern Europe.

The full article is available here: LINK

More information about the poltextLAB is available HERE.