Replication for: Shifting Dynamics in WTO Ministerial Statements

This dataset was created to support the replication of the study titled \"Shifting Dynamics in WTO Ministerial Statements: A Textual Analysis of Member Engagement, 1996–2024\", which investigates long-term patterns in WTO members' engagement in Ministerial Conferences. The purpose of the dataset is to enable replication of the study’s quantitative analysis, particularly those examining how members’ participation levels and negotiation positions have evolved over time in response to institutional turning points such as the launch and suspension of the Doha Development Agenda. The dataset is structured at the country-year level and combines metadata from ministerial statements with country-level economic indicators and computational text analysis scores (wordscore estimates). It includes variables such as the number of speeches, trade volume, and categorical indicators classifying countries into negotiation blocs based on wordscore or GDP per capita. The analyses focus on two key Ministerial events (Cancun 2003 and Hong Kong 2005) and assess changes in engagement intensity through multiple linear regression models. The dataset is limited to member countries and excludes group or observer statements. Supplementary files include R code for preprocessing and analysis to generate Table 3 in the paper.

本数据集旨在支持复现题为《世界贸易组织（World Trade Organization, WTO）部长级声明的动态演变：1996-2024年成员参与度的文本分析》的研究，该研究聚焦世贸组织成员参与部长级会议的长期模式。本数据集的核心目标是实现该研究定量分析的复现，尤其针对成员参与程度与谈判立场如何随时间演变这一议题展开分析，以回应多哈发展议程的启动与暂停等制度性转折点。本数据集以国家-年度为单位构建，整合了部长级声明的元数据、国家层面经济指标，以及词分法得分估计值（wordscore estimates）。数据集包含的变量包括演讲数量、贸易额，以及基于词分法得分或人均国内生产总值（Gross Domestic Product per capita, GDP per capita）将国家划分为不同谈判集团的分类指标。本研究聚焦两场关键部长级会议：2003年坎昆会议与2005年香港会议，并通过多元线性回归模型评估参与强度的变化。本数据集仅覆盖世贸组织成员，排除集团声明与观察员声明。附属文件包含用于预处理与分析、复现论文中表3的R代码。