European Populist Attitudes Toward Nuclear Sharing in 5 Countries

Nationally representative survey data from five European nuclear-sharing states collected by Tom W. Etienne for research published in International Studies Quarterly. The data includes experimental results measuring how populist attitudes and anti-Americanism influence public support for the stationing and use of nuclear weapons.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between anti-elitism scores and opposition to nuclear sharing arrangements
• Measuring the effect of the 'American ownership' experimental condition on respondent support for weapon stationing
• Evaluating how affinity for Putin’s Russia predicts opposition to nuclear weapons use against Russian targets

Strengths

• Nationally representative samples from 5 European nuclear-sharing states
• Includes a population-based survey experiment design
• Peer-reviewed replication data from International Studies Quarterly

Limitations

• Geographic bias limited to the five European states with nuclear sharing agreements
• Lack of raw column names and metadata in the provided description requires external documentation

Provenance

Source

International Studies Quarterly Dataverse

Collection Method

Nationally representative survey and population-based experiment

Freshness

Last updated March 2026

Geography

Europe (5 nuclear-sharing states)