PoliTweets

A data set of German tweets with annotations of political views. When using this data set, please cite the following publication: Felix Biessmann, "Changes in Policy Preferences in German Tweets During the COVID Pandemic" Social Informatics Conference, 2022. (Version 01 of this data set was used in this publication). The human annotators were trained by scientists at the Manifesto Project, the coding instructions can be found here. The current version contains 10561 annotated tweets with the following label counts: manifestolabel_human undefined 1981 freedom/human rights + 1032 welfare + 804 social justice + 637 environmentalism + 557 democracy + 555 political authority + 465 national way of life + 397 free enterprise + 305 labour + 275 law and order + 243 national way of life - 218 military - 192 infrastructure + 184 anti-growth economy + 167 social harmony + 164 gov-admin efficiency + 162 education + 155 productivity + 144 political corruption - 123 europe + 116 market regulation + 114 multiculturalism - 114 europe - 96 anti-imperialism + 91 constitution + 89 traditional morality - 88 military + 83 traditional morality + 83 economic goals 80 internationalism + 74 incentives + 70 multiculturalism + 62 economic orthodoxy + 52 non economic groups + 49 welfare - 46 marxist analysis + 46 agriculture + 45 foreign special + 44 protectionism + 42 internationalism - 42 culture + 37 decentralism + 36 peace + 27 centralism + 25 nationalization + 22 protectionism - 21 keynesian demand + 20 controlled economy + 19 foreign special - 17 minority groups + 10 labour - 10 corporatism + 9 constitution - 8 middle class + 7 education - 4 economic planning + 3