-
Selling scandal or ideology? The politics of business crime coverage
Quotes regarding price fixing and cartel cases from the British press (9 newspapers) between 2000-2009 which were then coded for qualitative content analysis. This enabled... -
UK Non-Departmental Public Bodies and Non-Ministerial Departments 1985-2009
This data collection presents yearly data on non-ministerial departments and non-departmental public bodies taken from Public Bodies, an annual publication published by the... -
Parliamentary Oversight in Russia and Ukraine 2006
This project sought to broaden understanding of the role of legislatures in contemporary states by investigating oversight in two post-Soviet cases, Russia and Ukraine, where... -
The information environment and participation
This is the data used for our paper "The Information Environment and Participation: When Reading a Newspaper Increases the Prob- ability of Voting". The data are in Stat format... -
Measuring the societal benefit of online civic 'self-help' sites, 2014
Data collection investigating whether online civic ‘self-help’ sites provide an entryway into civic and political engagement. Data were gathered on usage of the sites, levels of... -
Politics and interactive media in Africa (PiMA) household survey, Kenya and Z...
Individual-level household survey dataset for one urban and one rural constituency in Kenya and Zambia, covering questions on media and communications habits, political... -
Estimated political opinion in Westminster parliamentary constituencies
This data set contains estimates of average public opinion on several topics for 632 British parliamentary constituencies. These estimates are derived from existing primary data... -
TRUST: Tracing Risk and Uncertainty in Security Technology: Interview Transcr...
Interviews with scientists and engineers, as well as with end-users, relating to the development of a handheld Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives... -
Collection of tweets mentioning the UK petitions
This dataset includes entire tweets including a link to a petition on the UK government petitioning website. The data is collected via the Twitter public API. Please see... -
Government websites hyperlink networks, multiple countries
The dataset includes the hyperlink network structure of the government websites in different countries. This version of the dataset includes data from Canada, Japan, and Spain.... -
Collection of tweets mentioning the US petitions
This dataset includes entire tweets including a link to a petition on the US whitehouse petitioning website; We the People. The data is collected via the Twitter public API.... -
Interviews with national parliamentary administrators in the UK re national p...
The interviews focus on the role of the UK parliament in EU affairs since the Lisbon Treaty came into effect in late 2009. They include interviews with parliamentary clerks,... -
Quantitative Data on National Parliamentary Activity vis-à-vis the EU 2010-20...
The data indicate the activities of national parliaments vis-à-vis the EU or the period 2010-2012. They include debates on EU matters, questions and other parliamentary... -
UK government related tweets
This is a collection of tweets id's of all the records on Twitter from May 2013 to December 2014, which include keywords or handles of different UK government departments.... -
Online campaigns tweets: Malala, save the bees, women on banknotes
This dataset includes entire tweets including keywords related to the three social campaigns: Malala, Save the Bees, Women on Banknotes. Please see 'Related resources' section... -
We the people, the US petitioning website
This collection consists of total number of signatures to 1769 petitions over time (hourly resolution) along with petition metadata (title, category, time of creation),... -
Change.org petitions data
This collection contains number of signatures to 1949 petitions over time (with exact timestamp of each signature, and the city-country of the person who has signed) along with... -
Petitions: gov.uk petitioning website
This collection consists of number of signatures to 19,621 petitions over time (hourly resolution) along with petition metadata (title, category, time of creation), directly... -
Public attitudes, media coverage and House of Commons debates on salient poli...
Quantitative data collected on salient policy issues related to immigration, defence and environment, for the period 1994-2014. The data were collected in 2014 from (1) public... -
Ambiguous Citizenship: Democratic practices and school governing bodies
PhD Thesis Abstract School governing bodies in England have considerable formal powers and responsibilities. This qualitative research study explored their concrete practices...