Featuring unique survey data from legislators in 19 European countries and public opinion surveys in three countries. It examines the elite-public gap in attitudes toward compensatory policies for trade losers, including support for spending policies, tax cuts, and trade restrictions.
Use Cases
- Analyze variation in support for spending policies, tax cuts, and trade restrictions between elite and public survey respondents.
- Test the relationship between ideology and policy attitudes, comparing its effect on elites versus the public.
- Examine country-level differences in compensatory policy support among legislators across 19 European nations.
- Investigate the relative importance of elite-public gaps versus variation in support for different compensatory policy types.
Strengths
- Cross-national scope covering legislators from 19 European countries.
- Comparative design pairing elite surveys with public opinion data from three countries.
- Focus on a specific theoretical argument regarding elite-public gaps in trade politics.
Limitations
- Unknown sample size for both legislator and public surveys.
- Public opinion data is limited to only three countries, restricting generalizability.
- Survey data may reflect attitudes at a specific point in time, not longitudinal trends.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Survey data from legislators and public opinion surveys.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- 19 European countries for legislator data; three unspecified countries for public data.