AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Press Releases (OTS) 2013 (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES coding of party press releases covers all press releases that were issued by parties gaining at least two percent of the votes in the national election in 2013. The coding procedure applies the AUTNES relational approach of recording subjects, predicates, and objects to press releases. The subject is the person or party that features as the sender of the message in the title of the press release. 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 press release’s title best. The issue predicate numerically records whether the subject’s position towards the issue is one of support, rejection, or conveys a neutral/ambivalent stance. This procedure (coding of predicate and issue) is repeated for the subtitle of the press release. Up to three object actors are recorded from the information in the title of the press release, each with their name (if an individual is present) and organisational affiliation, as well as the evaluation by the subject actor (positive, negative or neutral). In addition to the basic subject–predicate–object structure we code four more variables: character traits for all object actors, party records for all subject and object actors, justifications for issue statements, and the incident that triggered the press release. Variables: party authoring the press release; sender (the three-letter APA channel through which the press release was sent); keywords of the press release; title; subtitle; text; name of first and second subject actor; organisational affiliation of these subject actors; reference to subject actor’s record; issue of title and subtitle; issue predicate of title and subtitle (position towards the coded issue of title and subtitle); reference of title and subtitle to policy at the EU level; justification of issue; up to three object actors: name and organisational affiliation; object actor predicates (the relation between the subject and each object actor as support, criticism/rejection, or neutral); reference to object actor’s record; reference to object actor’s attributes; trigger variables: arena in which the press release was triggered; name and organisational affiliation of the individual who triggered the press release; bipartisan press release (press release was issued in by politicians from two different parties). Additionally coded was: ID of individual press releases; coder-ID.

供科研使用的完整版数据集。
政党新闻稿AUTNES编码方案（AUTNES）覆盖了所有在2013年全国大选中得票率不低于2%的政党所发布的新闻稿。该编码流程采用AUTNES关系型编码方法，针对新闻稿记录主题（subject）、谓词（predicate）与客体（object）。其中，主题指的是在新闻稿标题中作为消息发送方的个人或政党。
客体分为两类：议题与客体行动者（object actors）。编码人员需从AUTNES议题编码体系中选取最贴合新闻稿标题内容的单一议题，以此完成议题的记录。议题谓词以数值形式记录主题针对该议题所持的立场：支持、反对，或中立/模棱两可。上述谓词与议题编码流程同样适用于新闻稿的副标题。
可从新闻稿标题的信息中记录至多三名客体行动者，每名客体行动者需标注其姓名（若为个人）、所属机构，以及主题行动者对其作出的评价（正面、负面或中立）。
除基础的主题-谓词-客体三元结构外，本数据集还额外编码四类变量：所有客体行动者的性格特征、所有主题与客体行动者的政党归属记录、议题表述的佐证依据，以及触发该新闻稿发布的事件。
变量包括：发布该新闻稿的政党；发送方（采用三字母APA标识的新闻稿发布渠道）；新闻稿关键词；标题；副标题；正文内容；第一、第二主题行动者姓名；上述主题行动者的所属机构；主题行动者记录的引用标识；标题与副标题对应的议题；标题与副标题的议题谓词（即主题针对标题及副标题对应议题所持的立场）；标题与副标题涉及欧盟层面政策的引用标识；议题表述的佐证依据；至多三名客体行动者：姓名及所属机构；客体行动者谓词（即主题与各客体行动者之间的关系：支持、批评/反对，或中立）；客体行动者记录的引用标识；客体行动者属性的引用标识；触发变量：新闻稿的触发场景；触发该新闻稿的个人姓名及所属机构；跨党派新闻稿（由来自两个不同政党的政客联合发布的新闻稿）。
额外编码的内容还包括：单条新闻稿的唯一标识；编码人员ID。