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PolInterviews -- A Dataset of German Politician Public Broadcast Interviews

Year: 2025

Type: preprint

Abstract: This paper presents a novel dataset of public broadcast interviews featuring high-ranking German politicians. The interviews were sourced from YouTube, transcribed, processed for speaker identification, and stored in a tidy and open format. The dataset comprises 99 interviews with 33 different German politicians across five major interview formats, containing a total of 28,146 sentences. As the first of its kind, this dataset offers valuable opportunities for research on various aspects of political communication in the (German) political contexts, such as agenda-setting, interviewer dynamics, or politicians' self-presentation.

Source: arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.04484

Authors: Birkenmaier, Lukas, Sieber, Laureen, Bergstein, Felix

Institutions: GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, University of Mannheim

Language: English

Topic: Media Studies and Communication

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4406231376

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