Replication Data for 'Business versus Citizens: Legislators’ Responsiveness in Trade Policy' is a dataset from Harvard Dataverse. It contains evidence from three survey experiments with over 1,000 legislators across 47 countries, plus qualitative interview data. The dataset was last updated on March 19, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze legislator responsiveness to business versus citizen preferences based on survey experiment data.
- Model the influence of political ideology on policy decisions based on the described left-leaning/delegate variables.
- Conduct cross-national comparative analysis of trade policy-making based on the 47-country sample.
- Validate theoretical expectations about elite-public interaction in international relations using the provided evidence.
Strengths
- Survey evidence from over 1,000 legislators, providing a substantial sample size.
- Cross-national scope covering 47 countries.
- Combines quantitative survey experiments with qualitative interview and open-response data.
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 geographic and institutional bias inherent to the survey's participant pool.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse, author Robert Huber.
- Collection Method
- Data gathered via three survey experiments and qualitative interviews with legislators.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-19 21:29:40; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- 47 countries across the globe.