LocalView, a database of public meetings for the study of local politics and policy-making in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Despite the fundamental importance of American local governments for service provision in areas like education and public health, local policy-making remains difficult and expensive to study at scale due to a lack of centralized data. This article introduces LOCALVIEW, the largest existing dataset of real-time local government public meetings-the central policy-making process in local government. In sum, the dataset currently covers 139,616 videos and their corresponding textual and audio transcripts of local government meetings publicly uploaded to YouTube-the world's largest public video-sharing website-from 1,012 places and 2,861 distinct governments across the United States between 2006-2022. The data are processed, downloaded, cleaned, and publicly disseminated (at localview.net ) for

SUBMITTER: Barari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10015146 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature