UK Public Opinion Survey Data on Climate Assembly Selection Procedures

Supplementary information files for the article "Is sortition the ideal? Examining public reactions to climate assemblies". The dataset contains results from two pre-registered survey experiments conducted in the United Kingdom, investigating public support for deliberative mini-publics. The data was authored by Anthony Kevins and is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the effect of participant selection methods on public trust based on the description of random versus purposive sampling.
• Studying public support for climate policy recommendations based on the described focus on deliberative mini-publics.
• Investigating procedural fairness perceptions in democratic innovations based on the described survey experiments.
• Comparing public reactions to different democratic models based on the described focus on climate assemblies.

Strengths

• Data is from two pre-registered survey experiments, suggesting a structured research design.
• License is explicitly stated as CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0, clarifying usage rights.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Anthony Kevins

Collection Method

Two pre-registered survey experiments.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 09:15:55; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom