Data on the securitization of ideologies in US presidential speech

This dataset reveals the data behind an article published in Global Society on how and when ideology was securitized in US presidential speech. It reveals how securitizing speech justifies methods and targets in the resistance of “dangerous ideologies” that are problematic for democracies. The analysis of the geographic and issue area contexts of the securitizing moves reveals that the entanglement of oppositional ideologies with security was articulated in the context of the War on Terror. While the original need to see ideologies as an existential threat was necessary to justify the exclusion of the ideologies of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein from the elections in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2004 and 2005 respectively, the securitization of ideologies then spread to issue areas beyond terror and to geographic contexts outside of these two countries, all the way to US domestic political competition. The need to avoid embarrassment in Iraq and Afghanistan may have thus affected US democracy.

This dataset is created for the analysis of the origin of securitization of ideologies in US political discourse. There are two Stata 17 documents, one focusing on word frequencies (WordFrequencies.dta) of all clauses in US Presidential Papers (Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States 1989-2014 (Washington D.C.: US Government Printing Office)) and the other focusing on NVivo-based coding of sentences (Coding results.dta) with the word "ideology" in any of its forms from January 2003 until the end of 2005. These are coded with NVivo 12 textual analysis package, with open access to the coding of the text in file “securitization of knowledge.qsr”