Reconfiguration and Internalization of Social Structure (RISS)
Data annotation: full parliamentary debates and party manifestos across five European countries (1980-present)
The project has developed an annotation scheme and is looking to contribute a large annotated dataset for multiple subprojects, exploring changes in social various segments of social structure as well as associated developments in political discourse.
Figure 1. Temporal coverage of the data by country: parliamentary debates (solid bars) and party manifestos (light bars) for Turkey, Poland, Italy, the UK and Germany. Hatched segments show manifestos that remain in force until the next election; Turkey had no parliament in 1980–83 (military junta).
Figure 2. Germany (Bundestag): share of party speaker turns by ParlGov party family in each legislative term, 1980–2029 (353,639 party turns, 10 parties).
Figure 3. Poland (Sejm): share of party speaker turns by ParlGov party family in each legislative term, 1980–2027 (2,543,143 party turns, 89 parties).
