Description Usage Format References Examples
Speeches and document-level variables from Irish budget debates held annually, for the years 2008-2012.
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year
4-digit year of the debate; debate
character
indicating whether the debate concerned a main debate ("BUDGET"
or
supplementary budget "BUDGETSUP"
); number
two-digit number as
a character, indicating the order of the speech within the debate;
namefirst
and namelast
first and last name of the speaker;
and party
a character abbrevation of the political party of the speaker.
Alexander Herzog and Kenneth Benoit. 2015. "The Most Unkindest Cuts: Speaker Selection and Expressed Government Dissent During Economic Crisis". Journal of Politics 77(4, October): 1157-1175.
Lowe, Will and Kenneth Benoit. 2013. "Validating Estimates of Latent Traits From Textual Data Using Human Judgment as a Benchmark." Political Analysis 21: 298-313.
1 2 3 4 5 6 | # just the 2010 speeches
ie2010 <- corpus_subset(data_corpus_irishbudgets, year == 2010)
summary(ie2010)
# just the Finance Minister (always first)
# note that "no" is a factor, not integer
summary(corpus_subset(data_corpus_irishbudgets, no == "01"))
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