Replication Data for: The Impact of Economic Crises on Political Representation in Public Communication: Evidence from the Eurozone

External threats such as war have been shown to disrupt representation as politicians "put politics aside" and cooperate across cleavages. In this article, I study whether a severe economic crisis can have a similar effect. To do so, I introduce a new approach that provides a spatial representation of how political parties represent societal actors in their public interactions, based on more than 140,000 machine-coded news events from 11 Eurozone countries between 2001 and 2011. I show that in bad economic times there is a compression of political representation: Parties' relationships with the societal groups they are closest to become less cooperative, while their relationships with the groups they are least close to become less conflictual.