Survey Experiment Data on Plausible Deniability and Militia Violence

Anonymous survey experiment data collected by Devin Brown, last updated in June 2026. The data examines how varying degrees of separation between a militia and government affect public attributions of blame and the persuasiveness of government denials. The findings support the concept of plausible deniability as an accountability avoidance strategy.

Use Cases

• Analyze the effect of government delegation on blame attribution based on the survey experiment design.
• Model the conditioning effect of delegation on the persuasiveness of government denials.
• Test hypotheses on plausible deniability as a strategy for avoiding international punishment.

Strengths

• Data is based on an experimental design allowing for causal inference.
• Last updated on 2026-06-08, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Devin Brown's Dataverse

Collection Method

Survey experiment

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-08 16:39:35; freshness should be verified.