Interview Transcripts from Chile and Cuba Constitution-Making Processes, 2024-2025

37 anonymized transcripts from semi-structured interviews conducted between November 2024 and January 2025 for a comparative politics article. The dataset includes 30 interviews from Chile's Constitutional Convention (2021–2022) and 7 from Cuba's Drafting Commission (2018–2019), organized by country in PDF format. Author Matthew Martin from the Texas Data Repository created this resource to support qualitative analysis of how constitutional drafters interpret public input.

Use Cases

• Analyzing elite legitimation narratives based on anonymized interview transcripts.
• Comparing framer interpretations of public input across the Chilean and Cuban cases mentioned in the description.
• Conducting thematic analysis on the role of technical staff and academics in constitution-making processes.
• Studying fieldwork challenges in sensitive political contexts based on the included methods appendix.

Strengths

• 37 total interviews provide a substantive qualitative sample for two country cases.
• Includes a detailed methods appendix documenting sample frames, interview guides, and fieldwork constraints.
• All transcripts are anonymized in accordance with an IRB protocol (UT Austin STUDY00006219).

Limitations

• One Cuban interview was conducted via WhatsApp text and is not available as a transcript, creating a data gap.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Audio recordings are not included, limiting analysis of tone and emphasis.

Provenance

Source

Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Semi-structured interviews conducted by the author.

Time Range

Interviews conducted November 2024 – January 2025, covering processes from 2018–2022.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 04:36:27; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Chile and Cuba.