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Pereira, Miguel M.; Giger, Nathalie; Perez, Maria; Axelsson, Kaya, 2023, "Replication Data for: Encouraging Politicians to Act on Climate. A Field Experiment With Local Officials in Six Countries", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HJYBA5, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:qQ4OudKAk8CU6nEii5/Iyg== [fileUNF]
Local governments play an important role in addressing the climate crisis. However, despite public support for climate action, local policy responses have been limited. We argue that (1) biased beliefs about voter preferences, (2) the time horizon for credit claiming, and (3) source credibility are barriers for legislators to learn and adopt new en... |
Müller-Crepon, Carl; Schvitz, Guy; Cederman, Lars-Erik, 2023, "Replication Data for: Shaping States into Nations: The Effects of Ethnic Geography on State Borders", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T1NXVQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:n6hhus4CByTu2DpXiKKCpw== [fileUNF]
Borders define states, yet little systematic evidence explains where they are drawn. Putting current challenges to state borders into perspective and breaking new methodological ground, this paper analyzes how ethnic geography and nationalism have shaped European borders since the 19th century. We argue that nationalism creates pressures to redraw... |
Kao, Kristen; Baldwin, Kate; Lust, Ellen, 2023, "Replication Data for: Is Authority Fungible? Legitimacy, Domain Congruence, and the Limits of Power in Africa", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QBKXT3, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:OoMss9yHhgUWbWs0ACEUfQ== [fileUNF]
Scholars increasingly recognize the plurality of leaders who exercise de facto authority in governing communities. But what limits different leaders’ power to organize distinct types of collective action beyond the law? We contend that leaders’ influence varies by activity, depending on the degree to which the activity matches the leaders’ geograph... |
Cox, Loreto, 2023, "Replication Data for: Great Expectations: The Effect of Unmet Labor Market Expectations After Higher Education on Ideology", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ACRFJM, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Higher education has massively expanded around the world, yet we know little about the political consequences of this expansion. Students generally have overly optimistic expectations about the returns to educational investment and the effects of unmet expectations on graduates’ political behavior have been overlooked. I study this phenomenon in Ch... |
Müller-Crepon, Carl, 2023, "Replication Data for: Building Tribes: How Administrative Units Shaped Ethnic Groups in Africa", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JW5B3P, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:nEndvcr9KrxJPh7Jq3PYNA== [fileUNF]
Ethnic identities around the world are deeply intertwined with modern statehood, yet the extent to which territorial governance has shaped ethnic groups is empirically unknown. I argue that governments at the national and subnational levels have incentives to bias governance in favor of large groups. The resulting disadvantages for ethnic minoritie... |
Gibson, James, 2023, "Replication Data for: Losing Legitimacy: The Challenges of the Dobbs Ruling to Conventional Legitimacy Theory", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AO7IYJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:V7b1nQa0LiCxJlFqkTRv5w== [fileUNF]
Extant research has established that displeasure with a Supreme Court ruling typically has negligible consequences for institutional support, largely because, as Legitimacy Theory’s Positivity Bias explains, judicial decisions are invariability delivered with the accoutrements of legitimizing symbols. The Court’s ruling in Dobbs, abrogating a feder... |
Furnas, Alexander; LaPira, Timothy, 2023, "Replication Data for: The People Think What I Think: False Consensus and Unelected Elite Misperception of Public Opinion", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/3VFVS7, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:VWlMwohHWtGAhw+dQsvq+g== [fileUNF]
Political elites must know and rely faithfully on the public will to be democratically responsive. Recent work on elite perceptions of public opinion shows that reelection-motivated politicians systematically misperceive the opinions of their constituents to be more conservative than they are. We extend this work to a larger and broader set of unel... |
Mignozzetti, Umberto; Cepaluni, Gabriel; Freire, Danilo, 2023, "Replication Data for: Legislature Size and Welfare: Evidence from Brazil", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WRCPOC, Harvard Dataverse, V1
How does legislature size impact public service provision? Despite the importance of institutional design for democratic governance, the effect of legislative features on citizen welfare remains little understood. In this paper, we use a formal model to show that increasing legislature size improves public goods delivery. We argue that changes in b... |
Dill, Janina; Howlett, Marnie; Müller-Crepon, Carl, 2023, "Replication Data for: At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self-Defense Against Russia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/B6ZNAI, Harvard Dataverse, V1
How do populations facing external aggression view the costs and benefits of self-defense? In Western countries, war support has been shown to follow cost-benefit calculations, resembling the moral principle of proportionality. A categorical position, in contrast, means supporting self-defense regardless of the costs. To evaluate which moral princi... |
Claassen, Christopher, 2019, "Replication Data for: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HWLW0J, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:hP3TFleFCgGAkpAVEydh0w== [fileUNF]
It is widely believed that democracy requires public support to survive. The empirical evidence for this hypothesis is weak, however, with existing tests resting on small cross-sectional samples and producing contradictory results. The underlying problem is that survey measures of support for democracy are fragmented across time, space, and differe... |
