Replication data for: Income, Preferences, and the Dynamics of Policy Responsiveness (doi:10.7910/DVN/JATOSJ)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Income, Preferences, and the Dynamics of Policy Responsiveness

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/JATOSJ

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2010-01-20

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Joseph Daniel Ura; Christopher R. Ellis, 2010, "Replication data for: Income, Preferences, and the Dynamics of Policy Responsiveness", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JATOSJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:HQQljdht/Z0Qtj69VDyMHQ== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Income, Preferences, and the Dynamics of Policy Responsiveness

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/JATOSJ

Authoring Entity:

Joseph Daniel Ura (Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University)

Christopher R. Ellis (Department of Political Science, North Carolina State University)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Deposit:

2008-05-06

Holdings Information:

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

Study Scope

Keywords:

democracy, representation, inequality

Abstract:

In recent years, a number of studies have attributed increasing income inequality in the United States to the political system’s failure to represent the policy preferences of low income citizens. This representative failure hypothesis indicates a potentially serious shortcoming of the extensive literature on linkages between aggregate-level public preferences and public policy, implying that many macro political researchers have overlooked heterogeneity in preferences across income groups that is consequential for understanding governmental responsiveness to public opinion and democratic representation more generally. This paper uses the lens of the dynamic representation to address this shortcoming and reconsider claims of representative failure in the United States, asking and answering two questions: First, do the ideological policy preferences of Americans vary across income cohorts? And, second, is government differentially responsive to the preferences of wealthier citizens? To address these, we develop an aggregate, time series measure of mass policy sentiment that can be disaggregated into measure of policy sentiment across income groups. While we do find marginal differences in the dynamics of policy preferences across income groups, we also find that there is little evidence that either House of Congress responds disproportionately to the preferences of any income group.

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Data Access

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

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Citation

Title:

Ura, Joseph Daniel and Christopher R. Ellis. 2008 (Forthcoming). Income, Preferences, and the Dynamics of Policy Responsiveness PS: Political Science and Politics.

Bibliographic Citation:

Ura, Joseph Daniel and Christopher R. Ellis. 2008 (Forthcoming). Income, Preferences, and the Dynamics of Policy Responsiveness PS: Political Science and Politics.

File Description--f1272786

File: ura_ellis_2008_ps_DYMIMIC.tab

  • Number of cases: 22

  • No. of variables per record: 17

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

Notes:

UNF:3:cZkDNTyS35uGP/y1ilZqOw==

Replication data for DYMIMIC analyses of House and Senate policymaking reported in Ura and Ellis (2008).

File Description--f1272787

File: ura_ellis_2008_ps_GRAPHS.tab

  • Number of cases: 32

  • No. of variables per record: 7

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

Notes:

UNF:3:2E6z//WccfN83EoZg4oEAw==

Data to reproduce Figures 1 and 2 in Ura and Ellis (2008).

Variable Description

List of Variables:
  • year - Year
  • hdpercen - Percent of Democratic seats in House
  • sseats - Number of Democratic seats in Senate
  • senwin - Percent liberal wins in Senate
  • senmed - Median liberalism of Senate Votes
  • sadsac - Senate combined ADA/ACA scores
  • hwin - Percent liberal wins in House
  • houmed - Median liberalism of House Votes
  • hadhac - House combined ADA/ACA scores
  • dem - Dem. House control dummy
  • sdem - Dem. Senate control dummy
  • poor - Poorest Quartile Liberalism
  • lowermiddle - Lower Middle Quartile Policy Liberalism
  • uppermiddle - Upper Middle Quartile Policy Liberalism
  • rich - Richest Quartile Liberalism
  • moodprox - GSS 10-Issue Policy Liberalism
  • mood - Stimson's Mood (2004 Release)
  • year - Year
  • poor - Poorest Quartile
  • lowermiddle - Lower Middle Quartile
  • uppermiddle - Upper Middle Quartile
  • richest - Richest Quartile
  • moodprox - Aggregate Proxy
  • mood - Stimson's Mood (2004 Release)

Variables

Year

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Variable Format: numeric

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Percent of Democratic seats in House

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Variable Format: numeric

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Number of Democratic seats in Senate

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Variable Format: numeric

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Percent liberal wins in Senate

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:GBgHfIJyFM1VBLquy8f6hw==

Median liberalism of Senate Votes

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:5QOdayytH2uLu1szj3+f2g==

Senate combined ADA/ACA scores

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:1GXQemCMtDmaH3Cp/y92qA==

Percent liberal wins in House

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:hxUhj4OyK4jpZPJuskDfuA==

Median liberalism of House Votes

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:TGFgbDxufA6K5SFsL+tP8A==

House combined ADA/ACA scores

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:8MVPDs9/HlOgDWae/MLiiQ==

Dem. House control dummy

f1272786 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:JPAyjolTnRrVwya0bcR78A==

Dem. Senate control dummy

f1272786 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:13QOtVig5qe5QqSELSAUDA==

Poorest Quartile Liberalism

f1272786 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:6SuKHZyw/Z9g8oouAC69eA==

Lower Middle Quartile Policy Liberalism

f1272786 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:IoaV3yQa42tl02Q5cLXnvA==

Upper Middle Quartile Policy Liberalism

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:e+HFrHEzCfNl1ZLQ8vw+7g==

Richest Quartile Liberalism

f1272786 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:yv9CuVfKBMd7tThkOkALzg==

GSS 10-Issue Policy Liberalism

f1272786 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:yfytlW2LACokE/iiLWN9oQ==

Stimson's Mood (2004 Release)

f1272786 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:zJPcwN+kaOgluYn8PxGL8A==

Year

f1272787 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:HHoB5zk07ASTMtItozDAQQ==

Poorest Quartile

f1272787 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:1l3hTlIzeYvG4UYz2bpV/g==

Lower Middle Quartile

f1272787 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:kHVDzF7mQ9FuWmtbOIL8fQ==

Upper Middle Quartile

f1272787 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:AfMhWGYZimSiWlVcGO9Y7Q==

Richest Quartile

f1272787 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:u3InKgcWItJMuaoNIuGFxA==

Aggregate Proxy

f1272787 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:+nMPu+8/TPmjWsxymLRayg==

Stimson's Mood (2004 Release)

f1272787 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:sfPXZ/b5wiZjXhbZjzLgdQ==

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

ura_ellis_ps_2008_APPENDICES.pdf

Text:

Appendices for Ura and Ellis (2008). Includes information on data coding and supplementary analyses of GSS spending item data.

Notes:

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