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Twitter accounts of candidates in the German federal election 2021 (GLES)

Sältzer, Marius; Stier, Sebastian; Bäuerle, Joscha
GESIS, Cologne. ZA7721 Data file Version 2.1.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14233
Abstract: GESIS and the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) collected the social media accounts of election candidates and their posts on Twitter for the 2021 German federal election in collaboration with the Digital Society Project and Twitter. With this release, we are publishing data for all candidates of the seven major German parties (SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, FDP, CDU, CSU, Die Linke, AfD) and their Twitter accounts. The candidate information was collected already since the start of 2021 but validated against the official candidate data published by The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahllei ... more
Topics: Political behaviour and attitudes | Government, political systems and organisations | Elections

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 01.11.2020 - 27.08.2021
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE)
Number of Units: 2558
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata, R, CSV
Number of Variables: 22

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Sältzer, Marius - Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg/GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften | Stier, Sebastian - GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften | Bäuerle, Joscha - GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften | Blumenberg, Manuela - GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften | Mechkova, Valeriya - Dig ... more
Publication year: 2023
DOI: 10.4232/1.14233 | 10.4232/1.13790 | 10.4232/1.13789
Study number: ZA7721
Publisher: GESIS
Research data center: FDZ Wahlen bei GESIS

Versions

Current Version: 2.1.0, 2023-12-14, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14233
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Study group:
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The German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) is the central infrastructure project in Germany for the continuous collection and provision of high-quality data for national and international election research. The methodologically diverse surveys of the GLES enable the research of political attitudes and behavior of voters and candidates. Since it ... more

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Sältzer, Marius, Stier, Sebastian, Bäuerle, Joscha, Blumenberg, Manuela, Mechkova, Valeriya, Pemstein, Daniel, Seim, Brigitte, & Wilson, Steven (2023). Twitter accounts of candidates in the German federal election 2021 (GLES). GESIS, Cologne. ZA7721 Data file Version 2.1.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14233.

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