Fourteen election observation reports from the Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) and the Organization of American States (OAS) covering seven elections since 2023. The dataset, created by Hyo-sook Kim and last updated in June 2026, contains sentence-level coding for issue emphasis, actor focus, evaluation tone, and normative language. It supports a comparative study on implementation diversity and norm robustness in international election observation.
Use Cases
- Compare technical versus political emphasis in election assessments based on the described focus areas of A-WEB and OAS.
- Analyze the tone and core assessments of electoral processes across different observer organizations.
- Study the use of normative language in international election observation reports.
- Examine the concept of implementation diversity and strategic adaptation in norm application.
Strengths
- Contains 14 reports covering seven elections, providing a basis for comparative analysis.
- Employs detailed sentence-level coding across four analytical dimensions: issue emphasis, actor focus, evaluation tone, and normative language.
- Explicitly compares two major international observer organizations, A-WEB and OAS.
Limitations
- The dataset is small at 19.5 KB, indicating limited scope.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Hyo-sook Kim via figshare.
- Collection Method
- Comparative analysis of publicly available election observation reports, using sentence-level coding.
- Time Range
- Reports cover elections since 2023.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-04 05:41:53; freshness should be verified.