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Replication Data for: Public Opinion and Nuclear Use: Evidence from Factorial Experiments

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication Data for: Public Opinion and Nuclear Use: Evidence from Factorial Experiments
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JZ4WG4
 
Creator Bowen, Tyler
Goldfien, Michael
Graham, Matthew
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Does the public oppose nuclear use? Survey experimental research varying either the advantages or disadvantages of nuclear use has produced a wide range of results. Yet no study has examined how the military advantages and strategic and moral disadvantages of nuclear weapons interact. We explore this interaction and uncover a pattern that unifies the literature's seemingly disparate results: the persuasive power of nuclear weapons' military advantages is conditional on their disadvantages. We demonstrate this by independently randomizing both the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear use in (1) a 2 x 2 factorial version of an influential design and (2) a novel adaptation of conjoint experiments that focuses on the most plausible comparisons between nuclear and conventional strikes. Our results support a new explanation for why the public can appear rigidly opposed to nuclear strikes in some circumstances and highly permissive in others.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Nuclear weapons
Public opinion
Nuclear taboo
 
Contributor Goldfien, Michael