IOParlspeech: A Dataset of Over 600,000 Statements on International Organizations in National Parliamentary Debates

IOParlspeech is a dataset of over 600,000 statements on international organizations (IOs) in national parliamentary debates between 1990 and 2018. The data covers six countries: Austria, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, and New Zealand. It is generated from the Parlspeech V2 dataset (Rauh and Schwalbach 2021) and from parsed speeches in the US Congress and Canadian House of Commons (Gentzkow et al. 2018, Beelen et al. 2017). Keyword in context is applied to find mentions of IOs (full names and acronyms), as well as extensive validation to remove false positives. Meta-data include information on date, speaker, party, IO mentioned, amongst others. The article 'International Organizations in National Parliamentary Debates', published at the Review of International Organizations provides illustrations of the use of IOParlspeech and introduces the data. Please see also the data documentation on Dataverse.