This repository provides the files necessary to replicate the analysis for the study "Explaining media coverage of Constitutional Court decisions in Germany: The role of case characteristics" The README.html provides the information on all objects which are uploaded in “data_and_code” and “manual_coding”. If you are interested in replicating the analysis reported in the study and the robustness checks reported in the supplementary online appendices, then simply run the “Analysis.Rmd” markdown file in “data_and_code/in/code”. The Codebook_finaldata_and_alternativeDV_v1.2.pdf provides essential information the operationalization for each variable which was used for the analyses reported in the study (and used in “Analysis.Rmd”).