Moroccan Consumer Survey Data on Political Connections and Clientelism

An original survey and conjoint experiment conducted in Morocco investigates consumer responses to cronyism. The data includes a behavioral test with real financial stakes to measure consumer willingness to patronize politically active businesspeople. The dataset was authored by Erin York and last updated on 2026-06-12.

Use Cases

• Modeling consumer avoidance of politically connected businesses based on survey responses.
• Analyzing the moderating effect of personal political connections on purchasing decisions.
• Testing hypotheses about reputational sanctions in markets using conjoint experiment data.
• Investigating the link between trust in government and tolerance for clientelistic businesspeople.

Strengths

• Includes a conjoint experiment design for causal inference.
• Features a behavioral test with real financial stakes, increasing external validity.
• Focuses on Morocco, providing data from an understudied political context.

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 bias inherent to the single-country study.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Original survey and conjoint experiment.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-12 11:32:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Morocco