Datasets

The Presidential Speeches Dataset

Presidential speeches from eight Latin American countries
1999-2023
25,000 transcripts
Extends formal/ritual speeches to a broad range of presidential interventions including public ceremonies, regional visits, interviews, daily press briefings, and policy announcements delivered across diverse institutional and informal contexts Data description

Protest event reports from major news wires worldwide
2,263 unique events within issue
69 countries
Automatic extraction of event features from News Agencies in english (AP, AFP, EFE, DPA)

Protest event data
- 17,000 events
- 10 countries
Automatic extraction of event features from News Agencies in english (AP, AFP, EFE, DPA)
Validation with protest event data from CONICET for four countries and COES Argentina.

Party rhetoric data
Scraping of press releases
Five main spanish speaking parties in Spain: PP, PSOE, Podemos, IU, Vox, Ciudadanos
Forty interest group organizations
2008-2021
45,643 press releases

Party Press releases - Spain

Protest event data
- 790 protest events from 3,417 news articles filtered from Factiva in English and Spanish (SPAIN and (protest* OR demonstrat* OR Rall* OR Strik*)
Automatic extraction of protest event data from El Pâis, El Mundo and News agencies for Spain (AP, AFP, EFE, DPA)”
Named Entity Recognition using SMO denominations and Factiva tags.
Repertoire dictionary
Violence classifier
Validation with protest event data from the Observatory for Political Conflict and Democracy in Europe - https://poldem.eui.eu/downloads/pea/poldem-protest_30.csv

1’100.000 Tweet IDs
Tweets from the five main spanish speaking parties in Spain - 2018-2022
- Official users of PP, PSOE, Podemos, IU, Vox, Ciudadanos”
Tweets from 154 interest group organizations
- Selected by registered lobbying activity
- Manually classified into 5 interest group types and 28 issues
Tweets from 93 government offices
Tweets from 307 national MPs