Political Meaning of Automation Risk and Public Responsibility

This dataset supports a study examining how automation-related risk acquires political meaning. The analysis distinguishes between structural recognition, attribution of public responsibility, and support for costly protection. The dataset is authored by Seungwoo Han and was last updated in February 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between structural recognition and attribution of public responsibility for automation risk.
• Model support for costly protection policies based on normative orientations toward automation.
• Examine institutional signals as predictors of political obligation in the context of technological change.

Strengths

• Dataset is associated with a study from Harvard Dataverse, a major academic repository.
• Last updated in February 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Specific data structure, including column names, row count, and file formats, is unknown.
• The sample data is unavailable, preventing assessment of data granularity or completeness.
• The geographic and temporal coverage of the underlying study data is unspecified.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Presumably collected for a social sciences study on automation risk and political obligation.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-02-17.