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Replication Data for: How Political Parties Shape Public Opinion in the Real World

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Title Replication Data for: How Political Parties Shape Public Opinion in the Real World
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Z5BTCQ
 
Creator Slothuus, Rune
Bisgaard, Martin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description How powerful are political parties in shaping citizens' opinions? Despite longstanding interest in the flow of influence between partisan elites and citizens, few studies to date examine how citizens react when their party changes its position on a major issue in the real world. We present a rare quasi-experimental panel study of how citizens responded when their political party suddenly reversed its position on two major and salient welfare issues in Denmark. With a five-wave panel survey collected just around these two events, we show that citizens' policy opinions changed immediately and substantially when their party switched its policy position—even when the new position went against citizens' previously held views. These findings advance the current, largely experimental literature on partisan elite influence.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Party cues
Political parties
Elite influence
Motivated reasoning
Polarization
Public opinion
Panel survey
 
Contributor Bisgaard, Martin
 
Source "Rigsarkivet", the Danish National Archives. "DDA-22007 Party political conflicts and citizens attitudes panel data 2010-2011". Accessed from: http://dda.dk/catalogue/22007?lang=en