Replication Data for: "The Influence of Religious-Political Sophistication on U.S. Public Opinion" (doi:10.7910/DVN/BEQRZC)

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Replication Data for: "The Influence of Religious-Political Sophistication on U.S. Public Opinion"

doi:10.7910/DVN/BEQRZC

Harvard Dataverse

2017-01-31

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Schmidt, Eric, 2017, "Replication Data for: "The Influence of Religious-Political Sophistication on U.S. Public Opinion"", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BEQRZC, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:v1ec9zPjVNhjsfuVbU2wQw== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: "The Influence of Religious-Political Sophistication on U.S. Public Opinion"

doi:10.7910/DVN/BEQRZC

Schmidt, Eric (Indiana University)

Harvard Dataverse

Schmidt, Eric

Schmidt, Eric

2017-01-30

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BEQRZC

Social Sciences, Religion and politics; American politics; public opinion; sophistication; Evangelical Protestants; Roman Catholics

Scholarly accounts of elite-mass communication often suggest that political sophistication is a necessary condition for adopting the attitudes of partisan elites. Some have also suggested that political knowledge promotes religious-political issue constraint among religious identifiers. This paper contributes to the political sophistication literature by piloting and testing a new measure, religious-political sophistication (RPS), assessing knowledge of church teaching on particular political issues. Using original measures launched on the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, I show that for evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics, RPS (in conjunction with frequent church attendance) depresses support for abortion rights and same-sex marriage. Moreover, I argue that assessing RPS this way is not fatally contaminated by unsophisticated respondents interpolating that their clergy must share their political positions. Results suggest religion-and-politics scholars should adopt RPS measures to gain a greater understanding of the unique sources of political communication upon which religious identifiers draw.

Dataset and code for reproducing (in R) all tables and figures in the published article. Please contact errschmi@indiana.edu for any questions/clarifications.

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

• Number of cases: 541

• No. of variables per record: 34

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

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Replication dataset in CSV format.

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• "abortion" - "abortion"
• "age" - "age"
• "bible" - "bible"
• "black" - "black"
• "church" - "church"
• "church.abortion" - "church.abortion"
• "church.ssm" - "church.ssm"
• "education" - "education"
• "evangelical" - "evangelical"
• "federal.funds" - "federal.funds"
• "female" - "female"
• "gop.exceptions" - "gop.exceptions"
• "ideology" - "ideology"
• "income" - "income"
• "incorrect.rps.abortion" - "incorrect.rps.abortion"
• "incorrect.rps.ssm" - "incorrect.rps.ssm"
• "insurance" - "insurance"
• "mainline" - "mainline"
• "partyid" - "partyid"
• "pro.choice.count" - "pro.choice.count"
• "romancatholic" - "romancatholic"
• "rps.abortion" - "rps.abortion"
• "rps.ssm" - "rps.ssm"
• "secular.knowledge" - "secular.knowledge"
• "ssm" - "ssm"
• "tradition" - "tradition"
• "week.20" - "week.20"
• "weight" - "weight"
• "bible.collapsed" - "bible.collapsed"
• "education.collapsed" - "education.collapsed"
• "ideology.collapsed" - "ideology.collapsed"
• "income.collapsed" - "income.collapsed"
• "ambiguous" - "ambiguous"

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; StDev 0.5005238065893597; Min. 0.0; Valid 474.0; Mean 0.50210970464135

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: character

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Mean 1.3389830508474583; StDev 0.716447226362294; Max. 2.0; Min. 0.0; Valid 472.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f2972353 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 1.5452865064695047; StDev 1.4286360243197915; Valid 541.0; Max. 4.0; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Valid 488.0; Max. 2.0; Mean 1.3483606557377052; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.7511506416812357

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Max. 11.0; StDev 3.042716860285588; Mean 5.1383647798742125; Min. 0.0; Valid 477.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Mean 0.14787430683918662; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.3553038747765528; Valid 541.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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FD graph 1 - Evangelicals (SSM).R

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Replication file for reproducing Figure 1 in the published article

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FD graph 2 - RCs (SSM).R

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Replication file for reproducing Figure 2 in the published article

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FD graph 3 - Evangelicals (Abortion).R

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Replication file for reproducing Figure 3 in the published article

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FD graph 4 - RCs (Abortion).R

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Replication file for reproducing Figure 4 in the published article

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Replication file - all tables & models - RPS paper - Schmidt.R

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Replication script for reproducing all tables and descriptive statistics reported in the published article.

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