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Mihály Fazekas, Cyril Benoît, Sebastian Thieme LEGDAT: A Global Infrastructure for the Study of Legislative Processes and Lawmaking, Legislatures are central to policymaking, yet comparative research has long lacked systematic data on how legislative processes unfold across countries. This paper introduces LEGDAT, a new dataset that captures the advancement of bills and laws in 16 countries, comprising over 350,000 bills and 60,000 laws. LEGDAT standardizes information on bill initiation, committee referral, legislative stages, final votes, passage or rejection, and post-enactment modifications. The dataset enables analysis of both the procedural dynamics of lawmaking and the stability of legislation over time. We validate the data against existing projects and demonstrate its breadth through descriptive statistics and cross-country comparisons. By combining temporal depth, geographic coverage, and process-level detail, LEGDAT establishes a new foundation for empirical research on legislative organization, political dynamics, and democratic responsiveness. Regular updates will ensure its continued relevance. Mihály Fazekas: Professor, Department of Public Policy, Central European University; and Scientific Director, Government Transparency Institute 'Cyril Benoît is a CNRS Researcher at Sciences Po, affiliated with the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. He studies how political institutions shape economic outcomes, with a particular focus on social policy and the distributive effects of legislative and regulatory processes. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods, his work has been published widely in outlets on comparative political economy, public policy, and legislative studies’. Sebastian Thieme is a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po, affiliated with the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. His research focuses on political economy and comparative politics, with a sustained interest in American politics, political institutions, legislative politics, lobbying, campaign finance, and quantitative methods