Dataset for: Measuring mediated deliberation in a comparative perspective: An analysis of Italian, French and Spanish newspapers

Mediated deliberation represents an innovative research approach. It aims to investigate whether and to what extent media may contribute to the public debate by offering deliberative elements. According to Mediated deliberation, indeed, media should facilitate public discussion by providing a coverage focused on the specific contents of the issue, by emphasising pluralism, namely offering visibility to all actors involved in decision making process and by offering argumentations. This paper investigates press mediated deliberation by presenting the results of a comparative research on Italy, France and Spain. The corpus of the analyzed articles amounts to 2,074 units from 15 widely circulated newspapers (five for each country) over a period of one month of monitoring. The mediated deliberation of newspapers has been assessed through the “Newspaper Policy Index”, which takes into account: (a) the inclusiveness of the journalistic coverage, (b) recourse to argumentation and (c) the amount of attention devoted to articles focused on public policies. Our findings suggest the existence of a significant differentiation among the three countries. Even if the three case studies are ascribable the Mediterranean journalism model (Hallin and Mancini, 2004), French newspapers seem to be characterized by a higher degree of deliberative quality if compared to the Italian and Spanish newspapers. We provide here the dataset used for analyses, for any further info (i.e. recoding, filter variables...) please contact: [e-mail] or [e-mail]媒介化审议（Mediated deliberation）是一种创新性研究路径，旨在探究媒体是否能够以及在多大程度上，通过提供审议性要素为公共辩论提供助力。依据媒介化审议理论，媒体理应通过以下三种方式推动公共讨论：聚焦议题具体内容开展报道、强调多元性——即为决策进程中所有参与主体提供发声机会、以及呈现论证性内容。本研究针对意大利、法国与西班牙开展比较研究，以此考察新闻媒体的媒介化审议实践，并呈现相关研究成果。本次分析的语料库涵盖来自三国各5家、共计15家主流报刊的2074篇报道，监测周期为一个月。研究采用报纸政策指数（Newspaper Policy Index）对报纸的媒介化审议水平进行评估，该指数包含三大评估维度：（a）新闻报道的包容性；（b）论证性内容的使用情况；（c）公共政策主题报道的关注度占比。研究结果显示，三国的媒介化审议水平存在显著差异。尽管这三个案例均可归为地中海新闻业模式（Hallin与Mancini，2004），但相较于意大利与西班牙的报刊，法国报刊的审议质量整体更高。本文同步附上本研究分析所用的数据集，若需获取更多相关信息（如编码规则、过滤变量等），请联系：[e-mail] 或 [e-mail]。