Replication data for the APSR Research Note 'Procedural Polarization: How Election Rules Shape Voters' Confidence'. The dataset includes original survey questions and all data required to reproduce the findings, figures, and tables from the main text and supplemental appendix. Data and code are provided in R.
Use Cases
- Reproduce statistical analyses and visualizations based on the original survey data.
- Study the relationship between election rules and voter confidence using the provided variables.
- Analyze procedural polarization in electoral systems as described in the research note.
- Benchmark new models for voter sentiment against the published findings.
Strengths
- Includes full original survey questions, enabling exact replication of the study's context.
- Contains all data needed to reproduce every finding, figure, and table reported in the text and appendix.
- Data and replication code are bundled in R, facilitating direct reproducibility.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- American Political Science Review Dataverse, authored by Joshua Clinton.
- Collection Method
- Survey data collected for the associated research publication.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
- Last updated 2026 05 06 13:08:53; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
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