AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Press Releases (OTS) 2002 (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 elections in 2002. 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.

本版本为科研专用完整版。政党新闻稿AUTNES编码数据集涵盖了所有在2002年全国选举中获得至少2%选票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，对新闻稿中的主语、谓语和宾语进行标注。主语指的是在新闻稿标题中作为信息发布主体的个人或政党。宾语包含两类：议题（issues）与行为客体（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议题，以此完成议题标注。议题谓语以数值形式记录主语针对该议题所持的立场：支持、反对，或中立/模棱两可。该流程（谓语与议题编码）同样适用于新闻稿副标题的标注工作。从新闻稿标题信息中最多可标注三名行为客体，每名客体需记录其姓名（若为个人）、所属机构，以及主语对其作出的评价（正面、负面或中立）。除基础的主谓宾结构外，本数据集还额外编码四类变量：所有行为客体的性格特征、所有主语与行为客体的政党归属记录、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；发送渠道（新闻稿发布所通过的三字母APA渠道）；新闻稿关键词；标题；副标题；正文；第一、第二主语的姓名；上述主语的所属机构；主语记录的引用标识；标题与副标题对应的议题；标题与副标题的议题谓语（即主语针对标题、副标题所对应编码议题的立场）；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；最多三名行为客体：姓名及所属机构；行为客体谓语（主语与各行为客体之间的关系：支持、批评/反对或中立）；行为客体记录的引用标识；行为客体属性的引用标识；触发变量：新闻稿发布的触发场景；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）。额外编码项包括：单条新闻稿的唯一标识ID；编码人员ID。