Kapiszewski, Diana assembled a spreadsheet listing 2,037 newspaper articles concerning the Argentine Supreme Court that appeared in the Argentine daily La Nación during President Carlos Menem's second term (1995-1999). The collection includes articles focused on politically important cases, rulings, and aftermaths, as well as other articles deemed relevant to understanding high court politics. This data was part of a broader research project analyzing inter-branch interaction over economic governance.
Use Cases
- Measuring the political salience of Supreme Court cases based on newspaper mentions.
- Analyzing media coverage patterns of the Argentine Supreme Court during a specific presidential term.
- Studying the relationship between high court rulings and press reporting on politically important cases.
- Investigating the role of the Supreme Court in economic governance debates as reflected in press coverage.
Strengths
- Contains 2,037 systematically selected newspaper articles.
- Focuses on a defined and tumultuous time period: President Carlos Menem's second term (1995-1999).
- Articles were selected using a methodology specifically designed for the project to ensure relevance.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data may reflect temporal and source bias inherent to focusing on one newspaper (La Nación) over a specific five-year period.
Provenance
- Source
- Kapiszewski, Diana, QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Articles were systematically selected and captured from La Nación newspaper with the help of research assistants.
- Time Range
- 1995-1999
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-20 20:00:05; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Argentina