Measuring Salient Conspiracy Endorsement: Replication Data and Code

Lisa Basil and the Research & Politics Dataverse released this social science replication package in 2026 to support the study of conspiracy theory endorsement. It provides the specific data and code required to reproduce all statistical analyses, figures, and tables from the associated journal article.

Use Cases

• Replicating the article's statistical models using the provided replication scripts
• Analyzing the 'salient conspiracy endorsement' metric across the study's observation units
• Validating the data used to generate the figures and tables in the Research & Politics article

Strengths

• Includes a README file with specific instructions for script execution
• Contains all data required to reproduce every figure and table in the original article
• Published via Research & Politics Dataverse, ensuring academic provenance

Limitations

• Specific row counts and variable definitions are not provided in the high-level metadata
• Geographic scope of the study participants is not explicitly stated

Provenance

Source

Research & Politics Dataverse

Collection Method

survey

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12