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Replication Data for: Public Responses to Unilateral Policymaking

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Title Replication Data for: Public Responses to Unilateral Policymaking
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VXH3BK
 
Creator Goehring, Benjamin
Lowande, Kenneth
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Presidents possess vast authority over policies and outcomes. Recent studies suggest the public checks this unilateralism through expressive opinions and political participation. We reevaluate this accountability link with a pre-registered panel survey that incorporates a number of design and conceptual improvements over existing experimental studies. Our findings reveal a more complex relationship between presidential actions and public opinion. We find no evidence that the public reacts negatively to unilateralism—and some evidence they react positively. Respondents, however, may punish an incumbent for failing to implement the proposed policy change. While such a result suggests that the public can hold presidents accountable, we close by discussing how a lack of information likely renders this check moot.
 
Subject Social Sciences
President, Public Opinion, Unilateral Action
 
Date 2024-03-04
 
Contributor Goehring, Benjamin