Replication Data for: Roll call votes in the German Bundestag. A new dataset, 1949-2013

This letter introduces and describes new datasets that include all roll call votes (RCVs) taken in the German Bundestag from 1949 to 2013 as well as crucial contextual data on characteristics of the voting members of the Bundestag (MPs) and the RCVs taken. The data cover almost 2,000 RCVs, more than 3,500 MPs, and about 1,100,000 individual voting decisions. The data make the German case accessible for comparative roll call analysis and allow systematic longitudinal analyses of various research questions regarding legislative behavior in the Bundestag, some of which we briefly discuss in the concluding section.