Political agenda-building under the conditions of a hybrid media system – a comparison across countries and issues (COAB)

The data set contains variables from a manual content analysis on food safety for which three different types of documents were analysed: 1. texts from websites, 2. articles from print media and 3. documents on the political agenda (plenary debates and documents from relevant committees).
The variables can be located at two different levels - at the document level and at the speaker/statement level. A maximum of three different speakers/statements could be coded for website texts and print media articles, and any number of speakers/statements for political agenda documents.
The coding at the document level consists of metadata (e.g. date of publication, centrality of the food safety topic in the article), information on the initiation of the documents (events) and references within the documents to (other) media.
The coding at the level of speakers/statements consists of individual elements of frames. These are variables for the more precise specification of the addressed problem within the topic of food safety, as well as the naming of reasons / consequences / proposed solutions.

Topics: type of the document; month of crawl/ publication; country; name of newspaper; title (headline offline documents); URL of the page; domain the page belongs to; organisation the domain of the page belongs to; social group and country of the actor that issues the page; date of publication; type of article; type of the political document; type of plenary document; initiator of business in political document; real-world event, that stimulated the writing of the document; centrality of the issue; reference to other online or offline media; rank of the most important actor; surname and name of the actor; name of the organisation the actor belongs to; additional information on the function of the actor; social group of the actor; organisational extension of the organisation or institution the actor belongs to; country of the actor/ organisation the actor belongs to; party affiliation of the actor; addressee addressed by the author; social group of the addressee; scope of the addressee; country of the addressee; party affiliation of the addressee; problem definition of the food problem; type of food in question; evaluation of the food problem by the author; specific perspective the actor takes on the food problem; cause of the problem; effect (consequences); treatment.

Additonally coded: ID of the document; name of coder; indicator of primary cases; filter.

<font color=red>The database-dump in SIARD format is available under study number <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.5183 target=_blank>ZA5183 </a>. </font>