GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
60 million
from 61 countries
BILLS AND LAWS
350 thousand
from 16 countries
Public procurement data:
When Mihály completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2014, his research relied on a dataset of government contracts from 3 countries.
Today, he has assembled a dataset containing 60 million government contracts from 61 countries, representing 2% of annual global GDP.
WHERE TO ACCESS THE DATA
At an interactive world map with a geographic distribution of the dataset:
On the following platforms for download:
HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE DATA
Global Contract-level Public Procurement Dataset
Mihály Fazekas, Bence Tóth, Aly Abdou, Ahmed Al-Shaibani
Data in Brief (2024)
Development aid contracts database: World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and EuropeAid
Mihály Fazekas, Aly Abdou, Yuliia Kazmina, Nóra Regős
Data in Brief (2022)
Legislative data:
In collaboration with Cyril Benoit from SciencesPo, Mihály has also assembled a large-scale dataset describing legislative processes, outputs and outcomes reflecting official information published on national parliamentary websites.
WHERE TO ACCESS THE DATA
On the following platform for download:
HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE DATA
LEGDAT: A Global Infrastructure for the Study of Legislative Processes and Lawmaking
Mihály Fazekas, Sebastian Thieme, Cyril Benoît, Dominik Brenner
PREPRINT (appearing ahead of peer review)