1. Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali e Politiche Italian Law-Making Archive A New Tool For the Analysis Of the Italian Legislative Process Enrico Borghetto (Post-doc) enrico.borghetto@unimi.it

2. Legislative data in Italy Official data sources Camera.it Parlamento.it Senato.it Normattiva.it Other data sources Openpolis Italian Policy Agendas CIRCAP Data archives Dati.camera.it (open data) Italian parliamentary studies

3. Shortcomings Several sources Each source is specialized Not consistent updating Variation in the format of data

4. ILMA – Italian Law-Making Archive Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, with the support of the Italian Ministry for University and Research Data collection started in the mid-90s Then, it was done mainly manually Now, through webscraping COoL – Centre for the observation of Legislatures www.coolresearch.net

5. What is ILMA? Present Database <- tool for information retrieval and management Short term Web interface <- tool available to the scientific community Long term Visualization tool <- tool for data analysis

6. ILMA today

7. ILMA: the database (1987-2008) Personal data of MPs and ministers Party affiliation Roll calls Legislative initiative… People Bills Dates in the process Readings Votes of confidence… Legislative processes Laws and delegation laws Legislative decrees Law-decrees… Legislative output

8. ILMA: the database (1987-2008) 3500 MPs 123 Ministers 2600 Roll calls People 44000 Bills 113 Votes of confidence… Legislative processes 3390 Laws and delegation laws 1200 Legislative decrees 2210 Law-decrees… Legislative output