Chinese Foreign Policy Opinion Survey Experiment Data

Replication data for a 2026 study on mechanisms of foreign policy opinion formation in China. The dataset, authored by Wu, Wenquan and hosted by Harvard Dataverse, contains results from a survey experiment testing the effect of government endorsement on public attitudes. The experiment assigned respondents into control and treatment groups to measure persuasion effects.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the impact of messenger credibility on opinion change based on the described treatment groups.
• Modeling the moderating effects of political fear versus political trust on persuasion.
• Studying the formation of nationalist or dovish foreign policy attitudes in an authoritarian context.

Strengths

• Data supports a published experimental study with a clear research design.
• The description specifies three distinct experimental groups (control and two treatments).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Survey experiment with random assignment of respondents.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 22:36:28; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China