Data on the Effects of Hegemonic Masculinity in US Presidential Speech Acts on Fatalities of Organised Violence in US Wars

This data helps measure how muscular power-oriented US approach affects the development of the number of fatalities in US wars. The data has been created by coding each sentence US president has spoken or written, as codified in the document collection Public Papers of the President of the United States, with the word protect. With coding rules these sentences have been codified as power-centric or not power-centric on the basis of the method that the word protect refers to. If the method is to use power to change someone else's behaviour, it has been coded as power-centric, if not then it has been coded as not power centric. The dataset consists of monthly frequencies of power-centric utterances with the word "protect", utterances of protect that are not power centric, and the ratio of the two.

This dataset it created for the measurement of the effect of hegemonic masculine US presidential speech acts on the development of fatalities in US wars. Hegemonic mascunility in this data is counted as the monthly absolute number and share of sentences with the word "protect" in which the method of protection is changing of someone else's behaviour by means of power (rather than conducting protective actions, such as accepting refugees, for example, or by restraining mutual power by means of arms control, disarmament etc.). Coding has been done by using NVivo and by coding each sentence from the document collection Public Papers of the President of the United States from the beginning of year 1989 until the end of 2013.