Aggregating survey responses from over 5,000 German adults, representative of the national population, measuring their consent or dissent to various electoral outcomes. It examines how preferences for and against specific parties influence acceptance of election results.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between a respondent's preferred party performance and their likelihood to consent to an electoral outcome.
- Examine the effect of a respondent's most disliked party's performance on their propensity to protest an election result.
- Investigate whether structural features like the number of parties in government correlate with measures of electoral consent or dissent.
- Model the drivers of electoral consent using survey data on party preferences and hypothetical electoral scenarios.
Strengths
- Survey data from over 5,000 respondents, providing a substantial sample size.
- Respondents are representative of the German national adult population.
- Focuses on a specific political science concept: losers' consent in electoral outcomes.
Limitations
- The dataset is based on survey responses to hypothetical scenarios, which may not reflect real-world behavior.
- Specific column names, data structure, and sample size details are unavailable for review.
- Geographic coverage is limited to Germany, limiting generalizability to other political contexts.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Survey of over 5,000 German adults.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Germany