Charges of Malfeasance, Preference Votes, Government Portfolios, and Characteristics of Legislators, Chamber of Deputies, Republic of Italy, Legislatures I-XI (1948-1994): Parliamentary Malfeasance (doi:10.7910/DVN/8ORQTO)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Charges of Malfeasance, Preference Votes, Government Portfolios, and Characteristics of Legislators, Chamber of Deputies, Republic of Italy, Legislatures I-XI (1948-1994): Parliamentary Malfeasance

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/8ORQTO

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2007-11-28

Version:

Bibliographic Citation:

Miriam Golden, 2007, "Charges of Malfeasance, Preference Votes, Government Portfolios, and Characteristics of Legislators, Chamber of Deputies, Republic of Italy, Legislatures I-XI (1948-1994): Parliamentary Malfeasance", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8ORQTO, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:yoJlCnNa2MKvSmwW9Wc6mA== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Charges of Malfeasance, Preference Votes, Government Portfolios, and Characteristics of Legislators, Chamber of Deputies, Republic of Italy, Legislatures I-XI (1948-1994): Parliamentary Malfeasance

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/8ORQTO

Authoring Entity:

Miriam Golden (University of California, Los Angeles)

Date of Production:

2007

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Distributor:

Miriam Golden

Date of Deposit:

2007

Date of Distribution:

2007

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8ORQTO

Study Scope

Abstract:

Dataset on parliamentary malfeasance, containing information on all requests by the Italian judiciary to remove parliamentary immunity (so-called richieste di autorizzazioni a procedure, commonly abbreviated in Italian as RAP) from deputies during the first eleven postwar legislatures (elected in 1948 through 1992), including the nature of the judicial charges, the partisan affiliation of the deputy charged, the deputy's electoral district and legislature, whether immunity was lifted or not, etc. The Italian constitution (Article 68) required that the Ministry of Justice transmit requests to remove immunity to parliament in order to investigate a legislator for suspected criminal wrongdoing or in order to proceed with an arrest warrant. A majority vote by the floor of the relevant chamber was required to lift immunity. Requests were first dealt with in committee (by the Giunta per le autorizzazioni a procedere) before proceeding to the floor. Most requests over the period on which data are available were not granted; many simply lapsed with the end of the legislature, never having been voted. Legislators were investigated and/or charged with crimes ranging from traffic offenses to murder. Our coding distinguishes opinion crimes (such as libel and slander) from other (more serious) types of malfeasance. A constitutional change in November 1993 ended the requirement that the Chamber approve all requests to remove parliamentary immunity before the judiciary could proceed, and the dataset thus ends with the end of the XI L egislature in 1994.

Time Period:

1948-1994

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Access

Notes:

Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f110502

File: Ids.tab

Number of cases: 104
No. of variables per record: 5
Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:3:aRaYHKlye8FBjL39GIZTPg==

Shows the correspondence between provinces, regions, and electoral districts for the period through 1994 (after which Italy’s electoral system underwent substantial modification)

File Description--f110503

File: Mal.tab

Number of cases: 3513
No. of variables per record: 14
Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:3:4vGQKROGPujKT2aw9N3i9A==

Data for this study in Stata format

File Description--f110501

File: Seat.tab

Number of cases: 350
No. of variables per record: 3
Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:3:NxJN643GRcr4+/eoauKaqg==

A dataset reporting the total number of deputies elected to the lower house for Legislatures I-XI (i.e. district magnitude)

Variable Description

List of Variables:

provid
province
electoral_district
regione
regionid
surname - l_name
name - f_name
leg - legislature number
tid - unique id
charges - nature of charges lodged (text)
request - nature of request from judiciary (text)
committee - outcome of vote by committee
d_com - date of vote by committee
floor - outcome of vote by floor
d_fl - date of vote by floor
doc - document number transmitted to parliament with judicial charges
district - electoral district number
pid - party id
opinion - opinion or other charges 0/1
year
district
seatstot

Variables

provid

f110502 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:iNQ29tBm0xiacjHsFGARQQ==

province

f110502 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:48PegQV+nw2dWTfD3bnFkQ==

electoral_district

f110502 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:PXtxhDY2VJ98LPMdzjgLlw==

regione

f110502 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:cITTGM46glJOBOuN5O4OhQ==

regionid

f110502 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:m4X8MYtYx+snFd2F03uT1Q==

l_name

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:CHYIRoPsCi6cg64URaQKXQ==

f_name

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:2gb8eJ6pLtdmjKjnsaLC2w==

legislature number

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:e3yZGJu+WZpZGVYCFgfLhA==

unique id

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:StRqHGIZaw5Bm2RMpurjaw==

nature of charges lodged (text)

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:VhmwLUd+cGa5cGLi97kcIA==

nature of request from judiciary (text)

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:Z520HjoqJyXOBqJaaP8XaA==

outcome of vote by committee

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:N74XqlFzcpQPSp0xHi5v7Q==

date of vote by committee

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:f3RcT6K+SN/KgvJpJkwOdg==

outcome of vote by floor

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:RfliqMDZIAcFu7qb5k9e7Q==

date of vote by floor

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:ILs3qzqmfvumH6SWaMDctw==

document number transmitted to parliament with judicial charges

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:rGOP0jM4CA3N9oOwfTuARg==

electoral district number

f110503 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:7ohTxsvII0ynAmww/z006g==

party id

f110503 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
7.	Monarchists
12.	PSU
3.	PSDI
10.	Rif Com
5.	DC
8.	MSI
2.	PSI
1.	PCI/PDS
6.	PLI
4.	PRI
11.	Lega Nord
9.	Other par

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:w6/z9YYG9HWttjl/9B6qsg==

opinion or other charges 0/1

f110503 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
0.	non-opinion charge
1.	opinion charge

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:Z9YycK66VejLhl7SHpnXXg==

year

f110501 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:QxLAp5Zg2p0dL2SdmAY+DQ==

district

f110501 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:0PCODDlF/J19uf1Pygz/sw==

seatstot

f110501 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:VffiMHxV2G1t3/nsSWaPTw==

Other Study-Related Materials

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Dates.doc

Text:

Shows election dates to the Italian parliament for Legislatures I-XI (date elected, date seated, date dissolved)

Notes:

application/msword

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

goldenPM.zip

Text:

Zip file containing data for this study

Notes:

application/x-zip-compressed

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

Mal.csv

Text:

Data for this study in Excel/cvs format

Notes:

application/vnd.ms-excel