PoliTweets
Description
A data set of German tweets with annotations of political views.
When using this data set, please cite the following publication:
Felix Biessmann, "Changes in Policy Preferences in German Tweets During the COVID Pandemic" Social Informatics Conference, 2022. (Version 01 of this data set was used in this publication).
The human annotators were trained by scientists at the Manifesto Project, the coding instructions can be found here.
The current version contains 10561 annotated tweets with the following label counts:
| manifestolabel_human | |
|---|---|
| undefined | 1981 |
| freedom/human rights + | 1032 |
| welfare + | 804 |
| social justice + | 637 |
| environmentalism + | 557 |
| democracy + | 555 |
| political authority + | 465 |
| national way of life + | 397 |
| free enterprise + | 305 |
| labour + | 275 |
| law and order + | 243 |
| national way of life - | 218 |
| military - | 192 |
| infrastructure + | 184 |
| anti-growth economy + | 167 |
| social harmony + | 164 |
| gov-admin efficiency + | 162 |
| education + | 155 |
| productivity + | 144 |
| political corruption - | 123 |
| europe + | 116 |
| market regulation + | 114 |
| multiculturalism - | 114 |
| europe - | 96 |
| anti-imperialism + | 91 |
| constitution + | 89 |
| traditional morality - | 88 |
| military + | 83 |
| traditional morality + | 83 |
| economic goals | 80 |
| internationalism + | 74 |
| incentives + | 70 |
| multiculturalism + | 62 |
| economic orthodoxy + | 52 |
| non economic groups + | 49 |
| welfare - | 46 |
| marxist analysis + | 46 |
| agriculture + | 45 |
| foreign special + | 44 |
| protectionism + | 42 |
| internationalism - | 42 |
| culture + | 37 |
| decentralism + | 36 |
| peace + | 27 |
| centralism + | 25 |
| nationalization + | 22 |
| protectionism - | 21 |
| keynesian demand + | 20 |
| controlled economy + | 19 |
| foreign special - | 17 |
| minority groups + | 10 |
| labour - | 10 |
| corporatism + | 9 |
| constitution - | 8 |
| middle class + | 7 |
| education - | 4 |
| economic planning + | 3 |
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