Party or Policy: Replication Data for Voter Decision-Making Research

Clareta Treger authored this replication package for a study in Political Behavior investigating the role of policy partisanship in voter decision-making. The archive contains the datasets and statistical scripts used to generate the results in the main text and supplementary materials. It was last updated in February 2026 on the Dataverse platform.

Use Cases

• Replicating the effect of policy partisanship on voter decision-making using the provided statistical scripts
• Analyzing the interaction between party identity and policy alignment features within the replication dataset
• Evaluating the statistical significance of policy-based voting patterns using the original study's data

Strengths

• Includes original replication scripts for R or Stata
• Peer-reviewed origin from the Political Behavior journal
• Contains data for both main analysis and supplementary materials

Limitations

• Unknown record count and specific column names in the metadata
• Potential for geographic bias depending on the original study's survey population
• Requires specific statistical software to execute the included replication scripts

Provenance

Source

Political Behavior Dataverse

Collection Method

Survey or experimental data collection

Freshness

Last updated February 2026