LAWPOL Politiikkapöytä is a portal that covers the entire political decision-making process from political programmes to legislative drafting documents. In addition to the material itself, Politiikkapöytä offers digital tools that enable the exploration of large datasets without requiring in-depth knowledge of computational methods.
The first version of LAWPOL Politiikkapöytä includes:
- a powerful search engine,
- the ability to display search results as a time series,as well as
- a network toolthat allows users to explore various actors and events, visualizing, for example, speeches and documents related to members of parliament and governments.
Additional tools are also being developed within the project and will be released at a later stage.
Use of the Material and Referencing
Users of materials collected from the LAWPOL research infrastructure must follow the guidelines of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK): "Responsible conduct of research and procedures for handling allegations of misconduct in Finland".
When using Politiikkapöytä, for example in research, the methodology section of the publication must mention that the Politiikkapöytä service of the LAWPOL research infrastructure was used.
The reference list should include a general note stating that LAWPOL Politiikkapöytä was used for collecting, delimiting, or analyzing the data. It is not necessary to cite the infrastructure separately for each individual document.
You can cite Politiikkapöytä in the reference list, for example, as follows:
The research data was collected using the Politiikkapöytä service of the LAWPOL research infrastructure (https://politiikkapoyta.fi/).