A structured dataset of the federalist society's public engagements.

Q2 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

F1000Research Pub Date : 2025-07-25 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.12688/f1000research.161735.2

Chad M Topaz

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Abstract

Background: The Federalist Society, a leading conservative legal organization, has played a significant role in shaping the American judiciary for decades. Despite its influence, comprehensive empirical data on the organization remains scarce. We address this gap by systematically documenting 20,205 public events hosted by the Society from 1984 to 2024, with substantive coverage from 2007 onward.

Methods: Following ethical best practices in data collection and ownership, we gathered event metadata-including titles, dates, locations, sponsors, topics, and speakers-via web scraping from the Federalist Society's archives. The dataset is structured to facilitate analysis of event trends, co-speaking networks, and thematic shifts over time. To ensure data integrity, we performed validation, deduplication, and cleaning, resulting in a well-structured, high-quality dataset.

Conclusions: This dataset provides an empirical foundation for examining the Federalist Society's role in legal discourse. It is a resource for scholars in law, political science, sociology, gender studies, network science, and computational social science, enabling investigations into key themes of discussion, event participation patterns, demographic diversity, professional backgrounds, and more. Researchers can use it to study institutional influence, legal networks, and the evolution of conservative legal thought.

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联邦主义社会公众参与的结构化数据集。

背景：联邦党人协会是一个主要的保守法律组织，几十年来在塑造美国司法方面发挥了重要作用。尽管它的影响，全面的经验数据的组织仍然很少。为了解决这一差距，我们系统地记录了1984年至2024年该协会举办的20,205场公共活动，并从2007年开始进行了实质性的报道。方法：遵循数据收集和所有权方面的道德最佳实践，我们通过从联邦党人协会的档案中抓取网络来收集事件元数据，包括标题、日期、地点、赞助商、主题和演讲者。数据集的结构有助于分析事件趋势、共同发言网络和主题随时间的变化。为了确保数据的完整性，我们执行了验证、重复数据删除和清理，从而得到了结构良好、高质量的数据集。结论：该数据集为研究联邦党人协会在法律话语中的作用提供了经验基础。它是法律、政治学、社会学、性别研究、网络科学和计算社会科学学者的资源，使他们能够调查讨论的关键主题、事件参与模式、人口多样性、专业背景等。研究人员可以用它来研究制度影响、法律网络和保守法律思想的演变。

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5.00

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1646

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1 weeks

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