American political event data, 1968-1972

Data were collected for 9,000 items reported on domestic American public policy issues in The New York Times Index. Forty issue areas are included. Approximately 4,600 cases are events in which an actor attempts to influence a target. The remaining cases are reports of press items such as editorials and columns. There are eleven variables for each event, including actor action, action mode, target, issue, and sampling information. The events coded are a sample of the 22,000 events reported in this time period in the Index. The actor and target information includes both governmental and non-governmental actor.