An experimental dataset from two studies by John G. Bullock of Yale University, investigating the impact of policy descriptions versus party elite cues on public opinion. The data likely contains measures of policy attitudes, exposure to policy information, party cues, and the extent of policy thinking. The experiments suggest that when citizens have policy information, it affects their attitudes at least as much as elite cues.
Use Cases
- Modeling the relative impact of policy information versus party cues on attitude formation based on the described experimental design.
- Analyzing the relationship between exposure to policy descriptions and the extent of policy thinking, as measured in the experiments.
- Testing hypotheses about democratic resilience and citizen decision-making using the experimental data on elite influence.
Strengths
- Data is derived from two controlled experiments, allowing for causal inference.
- The study design includes measures of both policy attitudes and the extent of policy thinking.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect experimental bias inherent to the specific study design.
Provenance
- Source
- John G. Bullock, Yale University
- Collection Method
- Data likely gathered from two controlled experiments.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Geography
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