AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Manifestos 2008 (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES dataset on party manifestos covers the manifestos of the relevant parties that competed in the Austrian national elections 2008. All natural sentences within the manifestos are part of the dataset. The units of analysis are standardized statements derived from these natural sentences by means of a set of unitizing rules. The coding procedure applies the AUTNES relational approach of recording subjects, predicates, and objects to party manifestos. The subject actor is usually the party, but it can also be another actor being cited in the manifesto. There are two types of objects: issues and object actors. Issues are recorded by coders selecting from the AUTNES issue coding scheme the one issue that fits the content of the statement best. One object actor can be recorded per statement, each with their name (if an individual is present) and organizational affiliation. The issue predicate numerically records whether the subject's position towards the issue (if present) is one of (conditional) support, (conditional) rejection, or conveys a neutral stance. Similarly, the object actor predicate numerically records whether the subject's position towards the object actor is one of support, rejection, or conveys a neutral stance. In addition to the basic subject–predicate–object structure we code character traits for all subject and object actors as well as the party record and pledges. Variables: sentence (the text of the natural sentence); statement derived from the natural sentence; page number of the manifesto where the natural sentence can be found; organizational affiliation of the subject actor (usually the party); name of the subject actor if an individual; attributes of the subject actor; issue predicate (the relation between subject and issue); issue category selected for the statement; statement refers to regulation of the issue on the European level; reference to a party's own or a political opponent's past behavior or achievements at different levels of governance (national level, land level, international level, historical); pledge (subjective pledges: promises whose evaluation requires a value judgement, objective pledges: promises that can be objectively tested); object actor predicate (relation between subject and object actor); organization of the object actor (usually the party); name of the object actor if individual; characteristics of the object actor (attributes: competence, character, leadership, appearance); year of election for which the manifesto was published; party authoring the manifesto; title of the manifesto. Additionally coded was: ID number for each observation; sentence-ID.

供科研使用的完整版数据集。用于政党竞选纲领的AUTNES数据集涵盖了2008年奥地利全国大选参选相关政党的竞选纲领，纲领内所有自然语句均纳入本数据集。本数据集的分析单元为通过一套单元化编码规则，从上述自然语句中提取生成的标准化陈述。本次编码流程采用AUTNES关系型编码方法，针对竞选纲领记录主语、谓语与宾语要素。主语行为体通常为政党，也可为纲领中提及的其他行为体。宾语包含两类：议题与宾语行为体。编码人员需从AUTNES议题编码体系中选取最贴合该陈述内容的单一议题，以此完成议题的编码记录。每条陈述可对应一个宾语行为体，需记录其姓名（若为个体）与所属组织。议题谓语以数值形式记录主语针对该议题（若存在）的立场：包括（附条件）支持、（附条件）反对，或持中立态度。同理，宾语行为体谓语以数值形式记录主语针对该宾语行为体的立场：支持、反对，或持中立态度。除基础的主谓宾结构外，本数据集还对所有主语、宾语行为体，以及政党相关记录与竞选承诺进行了特征编码。变量包括：自然语句原文（sentence）；从自然语句提取得到的标准化陈述（statement）；自然语句所在纲领的页码；主语行为体的所属组织（通常为政党）；若主语行为体为个体则记录其姓名；主语行为体属性；议题谓语（issue predicate）；为该陈述选取的议题类别；陈述是否涉及欧盟层面的议题监管；是否提及某政党自身或政治对手在不同治理层级（国家级、州级、国际级及历史层面）的过往行为或政绩；竞选承诺（pledge）：主观承诺为需通过价值判断评估的承诺，客观承诺为可通过客观方式验证的承诺；宾语行为体谓语（object actor predicate）；宾语行为体的所属组织（通常为政党）；若宾语行为体为个体则记录其姓名；宾语行为体特征（属性包括：能力、品格、领导力、形象）；该纲领对应的选举年份；编制该纲领的政党；纲领标题。额外编码项包括：每条观测值的ID编号；语句ID（sentence-ID）。