R: Irish budget speeches from 2010

data_corpus_irishbudget2010 {quanteda.textmodels} | R Documentation

## Irish budget speeches from 2010

### Description

Speeches and document-level variables from the debate over the Irish budget of 2010.

### Usage

    data_corpus_irishbudget2010

### Format

The corpus object for the 2010 budget speeches, with document-level variables for year, debate, serial number, first and last name of the speaker, and the speaker's party.

### Details

At the time of the debate, Fianna Fáil (FF) and the Greens formed the government coalition, while Fine Gael (FG), Labour (LAB), and Sinn Féin (SF) were in opposition.

### Source

Dáil Éireann Debate, Budget Statement 2010. 9 December 2009. vol. 697, no. 3.

### References

Lowe, W. & Benoit, K.R. (2013). Validating Estimates of Latent Traits From Textual Data Using Human Judgment as a Benchmark. Political Analysis, 21(3), 298–313. doi: 10.1093/pan/mpt002.

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