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Team Populism Data

2016 - United States 2016 Presidential Campaign Speeches

Measures the level of populist discourse in speeches, debates, and platforms of presidential candidates in the U.S. 2016 election. Covers 7 candidates, from March 23, 2015-November 8, 2016. Data collected by Kirk Hawkins at Brigham Young University. Available files for download include the coding results presented in an Excel spreadsheet, as well as zipped files of candidates' speeches and the completed rubrics of each coder. Please cite the data as follows: Hawkins, Kirk A. 2016. United States 2016 Presidential Campaign Speeches Dataset. Available for download at populism.byu.edu

DownloadsDemocratic Candidate Speeches and Party Platform
Republican Candidates Speeches and Party Platform
Combined Data Set (.xls)
Coding Rubrics