Dr. Simon Richter

Dr. Simon Richter

I am a political researcher and consultant, currently dealing with economic affairs, climate action and energy policy as an policy officer. From time to time, I still do political science, mostly focused on elections, campaigns, quantative empirical methods and experiments.

Voting in the Frankfurt Assembly Dataset

Published in Harvard Dataverse, 2023

Recommended citation: Herrmann, Michael; Sieberer, Ulrich; Richter, Simon; Spinner, Christian, 2023, "Voting in the Frankfurt Assembly Dataset", Harvard Dataverse, V1 https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/E8XB5N&version=1.0

(Abstract) The dataset records the individual voting behaviour of members of the Frankfurt Assembly 1848/49 (also known as Frankfurt Parliament, Frankfurter Nationalversammlung, or Paulskirchenparlament) in every parliamentary vote that was carried out by name. The dataset covers 300 votes and 808 members for a total of 147,792 individual voting decisions. The dataset further records members’ affiliations with parliamentary clubs (also known as factions or parties) and their committee memberships.

Download the dataset & documentation here

Recommended citation: Herrmann, Michael; Sieberer, Ulrich; Richter, Simon; Spinner, Christian, 2023, “Voting in the Frankfurt Assembly Dataset”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/E8XB5N, Harvard Dataverse, V1.