Australian Parliamentary Speech: How Deliberative? How Representative?

该项目旨在评估1901-2020年澳大利亚议会的代表性和辩论质量。它希望通过创新的定量文本分析方法，产生关于议会发展和运作的新工具和知识。预期成果包括分析代表性（阶级、性别等）与政策成果之间的关系、基于信息的议会发言衡量标准和标准化的议事录数据集。这将通过消除成本和时间障碍并建立国际合作能力，为学术界带来重大利益。所产生的客观信息有助于公众讨论议会辩论的效力。

This project aims to assess the Australian Parliament’s representativeness and quality of debate from 1901-2020. It expects to generate new tools and knowledge about the development and workings of parliament using innovative quantitative text analysis methods. Expected outcomes include analysis of the relationship between representation (class, gender etc) and policy outcomes, an information-based measure of parliamentary speech and a standardised dataset of Hansard. This should provide significant benefits to the scholarly community by removing cost and time barriers and build capacity for international collaborations. The objective information generated can contribute to public discussion about the efficacy of parliamentary debate.