Dataset Political Personalism in Social Media

This dataset covers
aspects of online politics in 25 democracies: 15 relatively old established
European democracies (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland,
United Kingdom); five non-European veteran democracies (Australia, Canada,
Israel, Japan, New Zealand); two early (Portugal, Spain) and three late (Czech
Republic, Hungary, Poland) third-wave (young) European democracies. The
research population includes, in each country, parties that won 4% or more of
the votes in two consecutive elections before April 2019 (a total of 141
partiesand 145 leaders). The dataset includes external party level
information such as performance in the last national elections, governmental
status, party age, populism affiliation and leadership selection method. It
also includes information related to the party leaders such as their term in
leadership office and other formal positions. In addition it includes
information about online activity mainly on the consumption (user related
activities) of the parties and their leaders in Facebook and Twitter two of the
most used social media platforms for political purposes.