Replication Data for: The Legislative Representation of Public Opinion Policy Priorities in Italy (doi:10.7910/DVN/FAH6KL)

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Replication Data for: The Legislative Representation of Public Opinion Policy Priorities in Italy

doi:10.7910/DVN/FAH6KL

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2018-12-27

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Visconti, Francesco, 2018, "Replication Data for: The Legislative Representation of Public Opinion Policy Priorities in Italy", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FAH6KL, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:aOsWFJICQrNHFrm0shpUCw== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: The Legislative Representation of Public Opinion Policy Priorities in Italy

doi:10.7910/DVN/FAH6KL

Visconti, Francesco (Università degli Studi di Siena)

Harvard Dataverse

Visconti, Francesco

Visconti, Francesco

2018-01-04

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FAH6KL

Social Sciences, public opinion, Responsiveness, Italy

Normative democratic theory requires political actors in parliament and government to represent not only the citizens’ policy preferences, but also their issue priorities. This article investigates Italian dynamic agenda representation – the transmission of public priorities into the policy priorities of the Italian political system. To assess the public’s policy priorities, data on the Most Important Problem from the Eurobarometer polls are used, while the legislative agendas of the members of parliament (MPs) and government are built following the rules of the Comparative Agendas Project. The results of longitudinal analyses across 10 policy areas and 20 semesters (2003–2013) suggest a persistent link between the public’s agenda and the prioritisation of legislation by the Italian parliament, majority MPs and government. Contrary to expectations, the opposition does not seem to be responsive to public opinion policy problems when introducing bills.

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• Number of cases: 200

• No. of variables per record: 16

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

UNF:6:aOsWFJICQrNHFrm0shpUCw==

Dataset with variables on public opinion and legislative agendas and the control variables.

• Issue - Issue
• Date - Date
• pub_op - pub_op
• BillsMPs - BillsMPs
• BillsMPsMajority - BillsMPsMajority
• BillsMPsOpposition - BillsMPsOpposition
• BillsGOVT - BillsGOVT
• Mattarellum - Mattarellum
• government - government
• gov_ideol2 - gov_ideol2
• opp_ideol - opp_ideol
• opp_ideol2 - opp_ideol2
• parl_ideol2 - parl_ideol2
• ENPS - ENPS
• ENPC - ENPC
• trend - trend

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 10.0; StDev 2.879489066906169; Valid 200.0; Min. 1.0; Mean 5.5;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:C147g5LRUn7TqAC4CjoDtA==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 20.0; StDev 5.780751285701166; Mean 10.5; Min. 1.0; Valid 200.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:jpY/b/vF/nvAiDNBt+Znsw==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 7.3541; Max. 28.54; Valid 200.0; Min. 0.32; StDev 6.910275808442361;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:NE3TDu8pd/UzJ+J1RgQv6A==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 190.0; StDev 4.008738229367201; Max. 16.92; Min. 0.0; Mean 3.7276315789473684;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:actn7ZjqXSaRwdzDSpsFnA==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 19.81; Mean 3.7126315789473687; Min. 0.0; Valid 190.0; StDev 4.159955156078582

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Tp6mtsl8nmm2ct6yG8v3CA==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 3.9901878137047975; Min. 0.0; Valid 190.0; Mean 3.7486842105263163; Max. 18.24

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:MPNqsN7GWLtpBUQwaN1smg==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 4.029947368421053; StDev 5.478527830812084; Max. 23.0; Valid 190.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:3fvvKmhM6/RMCdLILGWiHg==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 200.0; StDev 0.4594075275633935; Mean 0.3000000000000001; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:NTphjjfNjPxGdICSRH+Jbw==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 3.1; Max. 5.0; StDev 1.3032622385044224; Min. 1.0; Valid 200.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:z4eJp1ifdCzpwAYCs+B0sQ==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.6444775865493928; Max. 7.47; Mean 6.185; Valid 200.0; Min. 3.1

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Ki4u0p2L0CrQhFg/Y06GXg==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 13.693796967126548; Min. -21.2; Max. 21.3; Mean -2.3449999999999993; Valid 200.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Qe4Cae73FZRFAePxUS8U5w==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.355466412708149; Valid 200.0; Min. 2.72; Max. 6.34; Mean 4.8235

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:QGKuCZtautVTwIPnsir2zg==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 5.95; Valid 200.0; Mean 5.2505; Min. 4.61; StDev 0.5792168946562901

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:1838XSlKORRBzFcTFLeeiw==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 3.06; Valid 200.0; Max. 5.25; Mean 4.1465000000000005; StDev 0.9740052263230032;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:NVoq0NLvm4XniTRsSlK3Lw==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.3648527816500515; Max. 5.12; Min. 1.32; Mean 2.779; Valid 200.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:4CNeMLtIqqDf6tViMxgwbA==

f3096931 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 10.5; StDev 5.780751285701166; Max. 20.0; Valid 200.0; Min. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:jpY/b/vF/nvAiDNBt+Znsw==

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Visconti (2018) - LegislativeRepresentation.R

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R code to run the analyses.

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