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DP-R|EX Data publication

DP-R|EX is proud to announce the release of the dataset “Rhineland-Palatinate Monitor 2023”, now available at the GESIS Data Archive. The data are available here:

https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14635

The survey (CATI/CAWI) comprised 1,216 interviews and was conducted in 2023 by the Trier Institute for Democracy and Political Party Research (TIDuP) led by Prof. Uwe Jun. The first Rhineland-Palatinate Monitor not only expands the steadily growing series of German state-level monitors and provides an independent analytical instrument for examining the political culture of the federal state, but also aims to enhance comparability across the federal states through their respective monitors. In doing so, the political culture of Rhineland-Palatinate can be contrasted in particularly meaningful ways, allowing region-specific issues and attitudinal patterns to be addressed more precisely. The survey is aligned with other existing monitors in order to maximize these possibilities for comparison. The representative study was conducted around four thematic areas: (1) democracy and society, (2) state politics, (3) political participation, and (4) social participation. In total, 67 items were administered to assess attitudes toward democracy, to examine key issues in Rhineland-Palatinate, and to explore societal tensions.

DP-R|EX Data publication

How did the movement against COVID-19 containment measures take shape? The newly released Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset (TGCPD) provides a unique digital lens on this question. Spanning from March 2020 to December 2022, it documents 5.6 million public messages posted across 943 Telegram channels and group chats linked to Germany’s Querdenken movement and its wider network.

Figure: Monthly Message Count Across Entities’ Movement Role.

As shown in the figure, message activity skyrocketed from the early months of 2020 to more than five million messages by 2022—tracing the rise and persistence of a protest movement that largely organized itself online. The result is an exceptional data resource of great depth and scale, ready for scholarly research into digital mobilization and networked activism.

The data contains message texts, metadata, link structures (forward links), and network metrics, providing insights into how information and influence flowed through the protest ecosystem. By combining several carefully curated data sources, researchers can even partially recover deleted or short-lived content, a rare achievement in Telegram research.

Information about the study and details about the data access can be found here: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14316

Social movement studies – Quantifiable, long-term insights into the organization of the German Querdenken movement.


Network analysis – Mapping connections between core and peripheral actors, feedback loops, and influence dynamics.


Content studies – Exploring dominant themes, rhetoric (e.g., conspiracy narratives), and their spread across networks.


Platform governance – Investigating message and channel deletions and their implications for data transparency.