AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Press Releases (OTS) 2006 (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES coding of party press releases covers all press releases that were issued by parties gaining at least two percent of the votes in the national elections in 2006. The coding procedure applies the AUTNES relational approach of recording subjects, predicates, and objects to press releases. The subject is the person or party that features as the sender of the message in the title of the press release. There are two types of objects: issues and object actors. Issues are recorded by coders selecting from the AUTNES issue coding scheme the one issue that fits the content of the press release’s title best. The issue predicate numerically records whether the subject’s position towards the issue is one of support, rejection, or conveys a neutral/ambivalent stance. This procedure (coding of predicate and issue) is repeated for the subtitle of the press release. Up to three object actors are recorded from the information in the title of the press release, each with their name (if an individual is present) and organisational affiliation, as well as the evaluation by the subject actor (positive, negative or neutral). In addition to the basic subject–predicate–object structure we code four more variables: character traits for all object actors, party records for all subject and object actors, justifications for issue statements, and the incident that triggered the press release. Variables: party authoring the press release; sender (the three-letter APA channel through which the press release was sent); keywords of the press release; title; subtitle; text; name of first and second subject actor; organisational affiliation of these subject actors; reference to subject actor’s record; issue of title and subtitle; issue predicate of title and subtitle (position towards the coded issue of title and subtitle); reference of title and subtitle to policy at the EU level; justification of issue; up to three object actors: name and organisational affiliation; object actor predicates (the relation between the subject and each object actor as support, criticism/rejection, or neutral); reference to object actor’s record; reference to object actor’s attributes; trigger variables: arena in which the press release was triggered; name and organisational affiliation of the individual who triggered the press release; bipartisan press release (press release was issued in by politicians from two different parties). Additionally coded was: ID of individual press releases; coder-ID.

科学用途完整版。AUTNES政党新闻稿编码体系覆盖了2006年全国选举中得票率不低于2%的政党发布的所有新闻稿。该编码流程采用AUTNES的关系型方法，对新闻稿中的主语、谓语和宾语进行记录。主语是新闻稿标题中作为消息发送方的个人或政党。宾语分为两类：议题和客体行动者（object actors）。议题由编码员从AUTNES议题编码方案中选择最贴合新闻稿标题内容的议题进行记录。议题谓语以数值形式记录主语对该议题的立场：支持、反对，或持中立/矛盾态度。该流程（谓语与议题编码）同样适用于新闻稿副标题。

从新闻稿标题信息中最多记录三个客体行动者，每个行动者需包含姓名（若为个人）、所属机构，以及主语行动者对其的评价（正面、负面或中立）。除基础的主-谓-宾结构外，我们还编码了四个额外变量：所有客体行动者的性格特征、所有主语与客体行动者的政党记录、议题陈述的理由，以及触发新闻稿发布的事件。

变量包括：新闻稿的撰写政党；发送方（发送新闻稿的APA三字母渠道）；新闻稿关键词；标题；副标题；正文；第一及第二主语行动者姓名；这些主语行动者的所属机构；主语行动者记录引用；标题与副标题的议题；标题与副标题的议题谓语（对标题及副标题编码议题的立场）；标题与副标题对欧盟层面政策的引用；议题理由；最多三个客体行动者（姓名及所属机构）；客体行动者谓语（主语与各客体行动者的关系：支持、批评/反对或中立）；客体行动者记录引用；客体行动者属性引用；触发变量（触发新闻稿发布的场合；触发新闻稿发布的个人姓名及所属机构；两党联合新闻稿（由来自两个不同政党的政客发布的新闻稿））。此外编码的内容包括：单篇新闻稿ID；编码员ID。