Portuguese Parliament Plenary Speeches (1976–2026)

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Authors: Manuel João Cruz
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Abstract

This dataset contains intervention-level transcripts of plenary sessions of the Portuguese Parliament (Assembleia da República) from 1976 through January 2026. Each row corresponds to a single speaker turn extracted from manually collected session transcripts and parsed into structured variables including speaker, party, date, and full intervention text. The corpus contains 1,247,839 interventions and is suitable for longitudinal research on parliamentary discourse, political communication, party dynamics, and democratic representation.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Cultural and political discourse analysis Computational and Text Analysis Methods Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Publication details

Journal / source
Harvard Dataverse
Publication date
11 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Dataset