Data

Bureaucratic Reputation

Here you can download the dataset on bureaucratic reputation for UK and US bureaucratic agencies.

For the methodology, please see my paper forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science: Bellodi, L., A Dynamic Measure of Bureaucratic Reputation: New Data for New Theory (paper).

For full replication files, please visit the Harvard Dataverse.

Codebook

Reputation Data (.csv)

Reputation Data (.Rdata)

Other Dataset

While I still need to prepare codebooks for this datasets, I am happy to share them upon request. Please be in touch if you need this data for your research.

• US Congressional Speeches

Speeches given by US congresspersons in floor debates from 1994 to 2021.

• US Congressional Committee Speeches

Speeches given by US congresspersons in congressional committees from 1994 to 2021.

• Twitter Handles of US Congressional Candidates

Twitter handles/account of US Congressional Candidates from 2014 to 2020 scraped from Ballotpedia. These are useful to retrieve all tweets of candidates and not only those of elected congresspersons.

• Bureaucratic Composition of Italian Municipal Governments

Data on number, gender, education, type of contracts of the universe of public employees in Italian Municipalities (2001-2019).

• Budget Data of Italian Municipal Governments

Budget data for all Italian municipalities from 1998 to 2015 from the repository of the Local Finance Directorate at the Ministry of the Interior.

• Procurement Data of Italian Municipal Governments

Data on the universe of procurement contracts awarded by Italian Municipal Governments.