Replication Data for: 'Clear messages to the European public? The language of European Commission press releases 1985-2020', Journal of European Integration (forthcoming)

This archive contains the data and scripts for replicating the findings reported in Rauh, Christian (2022) 'Clear messages to the European public? The language of European Commission press releases 1985-2020', forthcoming in the Journal of European Integration. This includes, a.o., an original full-text corpus of all 44,978 press releases that the European Commission has published between January 17, 1985, and January 8, 2021 (file: 'EC-PressReleases_1985-2020_clean.RDS'). If you use these data in your research, please cite the article above as the source. Note that this replication package is wrapped in an RStudio project ('CommissionCommunication.Rproj'). Ideally you select all files, download them as a zip file, and unpack them in your working directory to preserve the folder structure. The file '0_ReadMe.txt' provides more detailed guidance to the individual files.