data_corpus_irishbudgets: annual budget speeches from the Irish Dail, 2008-2012
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Speeches and document-level variables from Irish budget debates held annually, for the years 2008-2012.

1	data_corpus_irishbudgets

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.

# 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"))