Gather topic from political discourses
Arguments
- v
Text vector or annotated data frame. If missing, opens the political topics codebook.
- dictionary
The dictionary of 20 major political topics from the Comparative Agendas Project (Jones et al., 2023) is used by default. Users can also declare a custom dictionary as a vector or a list. If users declare a vector, each element is treated as a independent topic. If users declare a list of subjects and related terms, function understands names as topic and words as terms. For more information on how the CAP topics were adapted, please run `gather_topics()` to access the political topics codebook.
Examples
# \donttest{
summary(gather_topics(US_inaugural_addresses_1993_2025$text))
#>
#> Education
#> 9
#> Government Operations
#> 9
#> Immigration
#> 9
#> Labor and Employment
#> 9
#> Law Crime and Family Issues
#> 9
#> Civil Rights Minority Issues and Civil Liberties
#> 8
#> Defense
#> 8
#> Health
#> 8
#> Macroeconomics
#> 8
#> International Affairs and Foreign Aid
#> 7
#> Banking Finance and Domestic Commerce
#> 5
#> Environment and Climate Change
#> 5
#> Social Welfare
#> 5
#> Transportation
#> 5
#> Community Development and Housing Issues
#> 4
#> Foreign Trade
#> 4
#> Space Science Technology and Communications
#> 4
#> Agriculture
#> 3
#> Public Lands and Water Management
#> 3
#> Energy
#> 2
# }