Czech Corruption

posted Aug 19, 2016, 3:25 PM by James Coutinho [ updated Aug 31, 2016, 4:09 PM ]

DESCRIPTION: The data comes from a Czech media database called Newton Media Search and involves
all major Czech newspapers for the period from 4th June 2013 to 4th June 2014.

Actors are:

Jana Nagyová, Petr Nečas – former prime minister and his office chief and love affair.

Ivan Fuksa, Petr Tluchoř, Marek Šnajdr – deputies of ODS (conservative governing party at that time)

Ondrej Páleník, Roman Boček, Jan Pohůnek, Milan Kovanda, Lubomír Poul, Libor Grygárek – high
government officials and espionage agents

Ivo Rittig, Roman Janoušek, Václav Ryba, Tomáš Hrdlička, Jiří Toman – eminences gris, "godfathers"

DATA FORMATS: UCINET, .csv

DATA: 1-mode matrix 16 x 16 person by person.

The ties are co-appearances – every time an actor was mentioned in one article together with any other
actor, it is considered to be a tie.

Ties are valued on am 11 point scale, where 10 is the strongest tie (Nagyova – Necas).

All other ties were transformed by dividing the total number of co-appearances between the two actors
by the value of the strongest tie, which gave the percent of the maximal tie. This percentage was then
assigned an integer value from range 0 - 9 according to which tenth of percents this particular value falls
into.
Example: The Fuksa - Nagyova tie reaching 50% of the strongest tie value was assigned a value of 5. The
Nagyova - Ryba tie reaching 3% of the max value was assigned zero etc.

SOURCE: Data from Tomas Diviák, available from Manchester.

KEYWORDS: Czech Republic, Czechia, political