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Replication Data for: How Responsive are Political Elites? A Meta-Analysis of Experiments on Public Officials

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Title Replication Data for: How Responsive are Political Elites? A Meta-Analysis of Experiments on Public Officials
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0HDTYM
 
Creator Costa, Mia
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description In the past decade, the body of research using experimental approaches to investigate the responsiveness of elected officials has grown exponentially. Given this explosion of work, a systematic assessment of these studies is needed not only to take stock of what we have learned so far about democratic responsiveness, but also to inform the design of future studies. In this article, I conduct the first meta-analysis of all experiments that examine elite responsiveness to constituent communication. I find that racial/ethnic minorities and messages sent to elected officials (as opposed to non-elected) are significantly less likely to receive a response. A qualitative review of the literature further suggests that some of these inequalities in responsiveness are driven by personal biases of public officials, rather than strategic, electoral considerations. The findings of this study provide important qualifications and context to prominent individual studies in the field.
 
Subject Social Sciences
meta-analysis
responsiveness
 
Contributor Costa, Mia