Thai Election Posters
Dataset of over 12,000 Thai election posters photographed during the 2011 national election campaign across Thailand. The posters were coded for spatial proportions of visual and textual content on each poster.
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Colm A. Fox (2018) Is All Politics Local? Determinants of Local and National Election Campaigns. Comparative Political Studies, 51(14), 1899-1934.
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What an Election Poster Can Tell Us about Thai Election Campaigns
Thai Data Points. June 7, 2019.
Indonesian Election Posters
Dataset of Indonesian election posters which were photographed between 2009 and 2012 in legislative and regional head elections. They were photographed using digital cameras and the photographs of posters were stored in a database for coding and analysis. Over 20,000 election posters were photographed across most of Indonesia’s provinces.
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Colm A. Fox (2022) Ethnic Campaign Appeals: To Bond, Bridge, or Bypass? Political Communication.
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Colm A. Fox (2022) Visualizing Politics in Indonesia: The Design and Distribution of Election Posters. International Journal of Communication, 16(2022), 4187–4209.
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Colm A. Fox, Jeremy Menchik (2022) Islamic Political Parties and Election Campaigns in Indonesia. Party Politics.
Indonesian Press Campaign Reports
Dataset of campaign reports from the regional newspaper Waspada published in Medan, North Sumatra. Newspaper archives were gathered for the five legislative elections that took place between 1997 and 2014. A codebook was developed to capture the code the kinds of campaign events, endorsements, and social group appeals that appeared in the reports.
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Colm A. Fox (2018). Candidate-centric Systems and the Politicization of Ethnicity: Evidence from Indonesia. Democratization, 25(7), 1190-1209.
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Why have candidates in Indonesian elections increasingly been rallying ethnic and religious support? The Conversation Indonesia. September 30, 2020.
Asian Newspaper Editorials on Covid-19
Dataset of East Asian English language newspaper editorials related to the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. Editorials were gathered for the first six months of 2020 from online versions of China (Global Times, China Daily), Hong Kong (South China Morning Post), Taiwan (Taipei Times), and South Korea (Korea Herald, Korea Times). These editorials were coded for their tone and how they framed the pandemic.
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Colm A. Fox (2021) Media in a Time of Crisis: Newspaper Coverage of Covid-19 in East Asia, Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2021.1971106
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Personalization of Politics in the Media
Ongoing research project studying personalization of political leaders in the media in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Indonesian Ethnic Coalitions
Dataset of Indonesian regional head election ethnic coalitions. Used to analyze ethnic coalition formation (with Edward Aspinall).