South African Public Protector Investigate Reports Data

Please read the Code Book. Author: Tomohiro Hosoi <strong>Aim of the Data Set</strong> The South African Public Protector Investigate Reports Data is the original data constructed by Tomohiro Hosoi (“the author”), who aims to investigate the role of the Public Protector in South Africa. His research article titled “South African Public Protector: People’s Watchdog or Politicians’ Lapdog?” which is published in <em>African Study Monographs </em>2023, uses this data set. The author aims to share the dataset for researchers to more sophisticated research in the future. The author provides the data in both excel and CSV format. <strong>Source of the Data</strong> The author downloaded all of the Investigation Reports on the Office of Public Protector’s Home Page on 15 April 2022. (http://www.publicprotector.org/?q=content/investigation-reports-categories). The data includes 388 reports from 2008 to 2022. The author reads all of the reports and codes the information containing them.