Judicial Public Relations of the Federal German Constitutional Court (FCC)

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posted on 2019-12-20, 10:41 authored by Philipp MeyerPhilipp Meyer

This data set covers all online available senate rulings of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC). It includes information about the date, docket number, proceeding types of each ruling. Furthermore the data set includes the full text of each ruling and information of whether or not a ruling is accompanied with a press release, an oral hearing or a dissenting opinion.

The data was used for analyzing factors which influence the FCC's decision to issue a press release. For more information see: Meyer, P. (2019). Judicial public relations: Determinants of press release publication by constitutional courts. Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395719885753