Summary information

Study title

Private Bills in the Finnish Parliament 1999-2014

Creator

Pajala, Antti (University of Turku. Department of Political Science and Contemporary History)

Kause, Tomi (Helsinki University of Technology)

Study number / PID

FSD3168 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3168 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3168 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

This dataset contains information about all private bills and other motions made by Members of the Finnish Parliament in 1999-2014 (four full parliamentary terms, four years each). Motions that Members of Parliament can make include motions for debate, legislative motions, budget iniatives, supplementary budget iniatives, and petitionary motions. The following information is included in the data: type of the motion, id number of the motion, the year the motion was made, the first signatory to the motion, party of the first signatory, title of the motion, section of the state budget, date of the motion, and other signatories to the motion. The project was funded by the Academy of Finland, professor emeritus Hannu Nurmi's project "Models of Political Institutions" (MOPI), the Public Choice Research Centre (PCRC) at the University of Turku, and the department of Political Science at the University of Turku.

Social sciencesGovernment, political systems and organisations

Decision makingLegislative processLegislatureMembers of parliamentPolitical actionPolitical representationPolitical systemsPoliticiansPoliticsState budgets

Data collection period

2006 - 2015

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Event/Process/Activity

Universe

Members' motions in the Finnish Parliament 1999-2014

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Compilation/Synthesis

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2018

Terms of data access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Puccio, Elena & Pajala, Antti & Piilo, Jyrki & Tumminello, Michele (2016). Structure and evolution of a European Parliament via a network and correlation analysis. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 462,167-185.
Solvak, M. and Pajala, A. (2016). Sponsoring Private Members' Bills in Finland and Estonia: The Electoral Context of Legislative Behavior. Scandinavian Political Studies 39:1, 52-72.
Pajala, Antti (2014). Lonely Riders and Cooperation Networks. Member of Parliaments Private Motions in the Finnish Parliament 1999-2010. World Political Science Review 10(1), 91-110.
Poyet, Corentin (2021). "The Conditional Effect of Personal Vote-seeking Behaviors on MPs Electoral Performance: Evidence from an Open-list PR System." Electoral Studies 74: 1-8.
Pajala, Antti (2014). Kansalaisaloitteet ja eduskunta-aloitteet suomalaisessa lainsäädäntöjärjestelmassä. Hallinnon Tutkimus 2/2014, 102-111.
Pajala, Antti (2014). Täysistuntoäänestykset ja eduskunta-aloitteet. Teoksessa Raunio, T. & Wiberg, M. (toim.) Eduskunta. Kansanvaltaa puolueiden ja hallituksen ehdoilla. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 184-202.
Pajala, Antti (2013). Yksinäisiä ratsastajia ja monenlaisia yhteistyöverkostoja. Kansanedustajien eduskunta-aloitteet 1999-2010 valtiopäivillä. Politiikka 55 (1), 21-35.
Pajala, Antti (2012). 99 % raukeaa tai hylätään. Entä millaisia ovat hyväksytyt eduskunta-aloitteet? Politiikka 54(4), 318-326.
Pajala, Antti (2011). Hallitus- ja oppositioryhmien suhde eduskunnassa II maailmansodan jälkeisellä ajalla. Politiikka 53(3), 214-226.