quallmer (version 0.4.0)

data_corpus_ms2020sample: Sample corpus of political speeches from Maerz & Schneider (2020)

Description

A corpus of 100 speeches from the Maerz & Schneider (2020) corpus, balanced across regime types (50 autocracies, 50 democracies). This sample is included in the package for demos and testing. The full corpus of 4,740 speeches is available in the package's pkgdown examples folder.

Usage

data_corpus_ms2020sample

Format

A corpus object. The corpus consists of 100 speeches randomly sampled from 40 heads of government across 27 countries, balanced by regime type. The corpus contains the following document-level variables:

speaker

Character. Name of the head of government.

country

Character. Country name.

regime

Factor. Regime type: "Democracy" or "Autocracy".

score

Numeric. Original dictionary-based liberal-illiberal score.

date

Date. Date of the speech.

title

Character. Title of the speech.

References

Maerz, S. F., & Schneider, C. Q. (2020). Comparing public communication in democracies and autocracies: Automated text analyses of speeches by heads of government. Quality & Quantity, 54, 517-545. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1007/s11135-019-00885-7")

Examples

if (requireNamespace("quanteda", quietly = TRUE)) {
  # Inspect the corpus
  summary(data_corpus_ms2020sample, n = 10)

  # Regime distribution
  table(data_corpus_ms2020sample$regime)

  # View a sample speech
  cat(data_corpus_ms2020sample[1])
}