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.