AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Leader Statements 2008 (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES coding of leader statements covers all public statements and actions of leaders of relevant parties in the six weeks before the 2008 election, as documented in Austria’s two leading quality newspapers (Der Standard and Die Presse). Leaders are defined as party leaders and top candidates (i.e., those heading the party’s national election list). All natural sentences within the newspaper articles mentioning the leaders are part of the dataset, but the units of analysis are standardized statements derived from these natural sentences. The coding procedure applies the AUTNES relational approach of recording subjects, predicates, and objects to leader statements. Here, subjects are always party leaders or top candidates (with a few exceptions). We record the link between subjects and two kinds of objects, namely issues and object actors. Issues are coded using the comprehensive AUTNES list of issue categories. Object actors are recorded with their name (if an individual is present) and organisational affiliation. The predicate numerically records whether the subject’s position towards the issue or the object actor is one of (conditional) support, (conditional) rejection, or conveys a neutral/ambivalent stance. We record four supplementary variables: character traits for all object actors, leader records for subject and object actors, and justifications for issue statements. Variables: ID; year of the election campaign; newspaper (Der Standard, Die Presse); date of newspaper publication; page of the newspaper; title of the newspaper article; sentence in the newspaper article; presence of relevant party leader statement; statement extracted from the sentence; organisational affiliation of the quoting actor; name of the quoting actor (if individual); organisational affiliation of the subject actor; name of the subject actor (if individual); predicate (relation between subject actor and issue (or object actor if present); issue coded for the party leader statement; reference of subtitle to regulation or policy at the European level; justification of issue statements (economy, welfare state: expansive / protective, environment, security, education, governance, ethnic-national, religious, universalistic, not classifiable); reference to subject actor’s record or object actor’s record if object actor present (national level, Land level, international level, historical); organisational affiliation of the first object actor; name of the first object actor; characteristics of the object actor (attributes: competence, character, leadership, appearance, not classifiable).

供科研使用的完整版数据集。针对领导者言论的AUTNES编码体系覆盖了2008年大选前六周内相关政党领导人的所有公开言论与行动，数据源自奥地利两份顶级高品质报纸《标准报》（Der Standard）与《新闻报》（Die Presse）的报道内容。此处的“领导人”定义为政党领袖以及首席候选人（即领衔政党全国竞选名单的候选人）。所有提及上述领导人的报纸报道中的自然语句均纳入数据集，但分析单元为从这些自然语句中提炼出的标准化言论。该编码流程针对领导者言论采用AUTNES关系分析法，记录主语、谓语与宾语要素。在此分析框架中，主语始终为政党领袖或首席候选人（仅极少数例外）。我们将记录主语与两类宾语的关联关系，即议题与宾语主体。议题将通过涵盖全面的AUTNES议题分类清单进行编码。宾语主体则会记录其姓名（若为个体）与所属组织。谓语以数值形式记录主语针对该议题或宾语主体的立场：属于（有条件）支持、（有条件）反对，或传递中立/矛盾态度。此外，我们还记录四类补充变量：所有宾语主体的性格特质、主语与宾语主体的领导人档案、以及针对议题言论的论证依据。变量包括：唯一标识符（ID）、竞选活动年份、报纸名称（Der Standard、Die Presse）、报纸出版日期、报纸版面、报道标题、报道中的语句、相关政党领导人言论的存在标识、从语句中提炼的言论、引述主体的所属组织、引述主体的姓名（若为个体）、主语主体的所属组织、主语主体的姓名（若为个体）、谓语（主语主体与议题（或存在的宾语主体）之间的关联关系）、针对政党领导人言论编码的议题、副标题对欧盟层面法规或政策的引用标识、议题言论的论证依据分类（经济、福利国家：扩张型/保护型、环境、安全、教育、治理、族裔-民族、宗教、普世主义、无法归类）、当存在宾语主体时，对主语主体或宾语主体档案的引用（国家级、联邦州级、国际级、历史层面）、第一宾语主体的所属组织、第一宾语主体的姓名、宾语主体的特质（属性：能力、性格、领导力、形象、无法归类）。