Political Personalism in Social Media

• Main Author: Shahaf Zamir
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: figshare 2021
• Subjects: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified; FOS Political science; 160603 Comparative Government and Politics; 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies; FOS Media and communications; 200104 Media Studies; Canada; New Zealand; Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14073638.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Political_Personalism_in_Social_Media/14073638/1

This dataset covers aspects of online politics in 25 democracies: 15 relatively old established European democracies (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom); five non-European veteran democracies (Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand); two early (Portugal, Spain) and three late (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland) third-wave (young) European democracies. The research population includes, in each country, parties that won 4% or more of the votes in two consecutive elections before April 2019 (a total of 141 parties and 145 leaders). The dataset includes external party level information such as performance in the last national elections, governmental status, party age, populism affiliation and leadership selection method. It also includes information related to the party leaders such as their term in leadership office and other formal positions. In addition it includes information about online activity mainly on the consumption (user related activities) of the parties and their leaders in Facebook and Twitter two of the most used social media platforms for political purposes.