Replication Data for: Attitudes Toward Electoral System Reform and Party System Change in the U.S. was authored by Quinton Mayne and hosted by the American Political Science Review Dataverse. It contains data from conjoint and vignette experiments studying how Americans assess electoral reforms based on their implications for party numbers and ideological polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-14.
Use Cases
- Modeling public preferences for electoral reforms based on described experimental outcomes.
- Analyzing trade-offs between democratic voice, governability, and responsiveness as described in the study.
- Investigating aversion to legislative polarization versus openness to multipartism as highlighted in the findings.
Strengths
- Data is from a published study in the American Political Science Review Dataverse, suggesting academic rigor.
- The description details a specific methodological approach using conjoint and vignette experiments.
- The dataset focuses on concrete party-system outcomes like polarization and multipartism, rather than technical features.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- American Political Science Review Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Conjoint and vignette experiments
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-14 13:14:29; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- United States