Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications

Milazzo, Caitlin; Trumm, Siim; Townsley, Joshua

Abstract

Parties’ electoral communications play a central role in British campaigns. Yet, we know little about the nature of the material contained in these communications and how parties’ campaign messages differ across constituencies or elections. In this article, we present a new dataset of 8600 election leaflets from four recent general elections that relies on crowdsourced information. We illustrate the utility of the OpenElections dataset by comparing the use of negative campaign messaging across parties and over time.

Citation

Milazzo, C., Trumm, S., & Townsley, J. (2021). Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications. Political Studies Review, 19(3), 520-527. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929920970740

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 12, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Nov 25, 2020
• Publication Date: Aug 1, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jan 11, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 11, 2021
• Journal: Political Studies Review
• Print ISSN: 1478-9299
• Electronic ISSN: 1478-9302
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 520-527
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929920970740
• Keywords: Political Science and International Relations; Sociology and Political Science
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5088737
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1478929920970740
• Additional Information: Milazzo C, Trumm S, Townsley J. Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications. Political Studies Review. November 2020. doi:10.1177/1478929920970740