Replication Data for: How Responsive are Political Elites? A Meta-Analysis of Experiments on Public Officials (doi:10.7910/DVN/0HDTYM)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: How Responsive are Political Elites? A Meta-Analysis of Experiments on Public Officials

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/0HDTYM

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2017-09-13

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Costa, Mia, 2017, "Replication Data for: How Responsive are Political Elites? A Meta-Analysis of Experiments on Public Officials", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0HDTYM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:0+UY/vB9TOgACY/FKWmyFw== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: How Responsive are Political Elites? A Meta-Analysis of Experiments on Public Officials

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/0HDTYM

Authoring Entity:

Costa, Mia (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Costa, Mia

Depositor:

Costa, Mia

Date of Deposit:

2017-09-13

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0HDTYM

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, meta-analysis, responsiveness

Abstract:

In the past decade, the body of research using experimental approaches to investigate the responsiveness of elected officials has grown exponentially. Given this explosion of work, a systematic assessment of these studies is needed not only to take stock of what we have learned so far about democratic responsiveness, but also to inform the design of future studies. In this article, I conduct the first meta-analysis of all experiments that examine elite responsiveness to constituent communication. I find that racial/ethnic minorities and messages sent to elected officials (as opposed to non-elected) are significantly less likely to receive a response. A qualitative review of the literature further suggests that some of these inequalities in responsiveness are driven by personal biases of public officials, rather than strategic, electoral considerations. The findings of this study provide important qualifications and context to prominent individual studies in the field.

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Access

Notes:

Please use the following citation if using this data: Costa, Mia, 2017, "Replication Data for: How Responsive are Political Elites? A Meta-Analysis of Experiments on Public Officials", doi:10.7910/DVN/0HDTYM, Harvard Dataverse

Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f3051820

File: Studylevel_robustnesscheck.tab

  • Number of cases: 20

  • No. of variables per record: 5

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:6:0+UY/vB9TOgACY/FKWmyFw==

This is the data file for the robustness check presented in the supporting information that calculates the overall responsiveness estimate without “double-counting” experiments (Table SI.1, column 3)

Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

studyID

f3051820 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 1.0; Valid 20.0; StDev 5.916079783099616; Max. 20.0; Mean 10.5

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:/FIOZM/29oC3TK/IE52m2A==

N

f3051820 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 170.0; Max. 11801.0; StDev 3064.6385894931436; Mean 2384.0; Valid 20.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:PcAM4RK/L7FPOdJGrlPvDw==

responses

f3051820 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 95.996; Valid 10.0; StDev 2397.310649476209; Mean 2096.4154; Max. 7139.98

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:La0L6JXb2upSt4arT2284g==

treat.effect

f3051820 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.1576680306680363; Min. 0.209; Mean 0.51045; Max. 0.785; Valid 20.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:VCIGUD1VwCl9TT0g46RgMQ==

standard.err

f3051820 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.0167; StDev 0.01045340538822284; Valid 20.0; Min. 0.005; Max. 0.045;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:vney9V3ulhFSygjG/c4MlA==

Other Study-Related Materials

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analysis_replication.R

Text:

Replicates all the results both from the main text and the supporting information. All analyses were conducted using R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)

Notes:

type/x-r-syntax

Other Study-Related Materials

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Experiments_replication.csv

Text:

This is the data file containing each experiment used by the replication script to reproduce all analyses in the main text and all but one analyses in the supporting information.

Notes:

text/csv

Other Study-Related Materials

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log.txt

Text:

Displays all of the results by running the code in analysis_replication.R

Notes:

text/plain

Other Study-Related Materials

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readme.rtf

Text:

Description of replication files/datasets.

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text/rtf