Ahler and Sood, 2017, The Journal of Politics

This folder contains data and scripts needed for replicating the results in "The Parties in our Heads: Misperceptions About Party Composition and Their Consequences" by Doug Ahler and Gaurav Sood, to be published in The Journal of Politics (doi:). For more information, please contact Doug Ahler (doug.ahler@gmail.com) or Gaurav Sood (gsood07@gmail.com).

• pcomp_yougov_data.dta --- data from YouGov Study
• pcomp_igspoll.dta--- data from IGS Poll
• affect_exp_data.dta --- data from MTurk Experiment to Assess Impact on Partisan Affect
• alt_exps_data.dta --- data from MTurk Experiment to Assess Alternate Explanations
• extremity_exp_data.dta --- data from MTurk Experiment to Assess Impact on Perceived Extremity
• anes_timeseries_2012.dta --- data from the 2012 American National Election Studies
• Pew_Relig_P1.pdf and Pew_Relig_P5.pdf --- sources for proportion of Atheists and Agnostics in the population and the Democratic Party.

Other data files included in the folder are generated when the scripts are run.

• codebook.txt

Run pcomp_replication_main.do first. And then the R files for producing the figures.

• 01_pcomp_replication_main.do --- Code for reproducing all the tables and miscellaneous numbers cited in the main text of the paper and for producing the numbers that underlie some of the figures.
• 02_fig1.R --- Code for reproducing figure 1 in the main text
• 03_fig2.R --- Code for reproducing figure 2 in the main text
• 04_fig3a_b.R --- Code for reproducing figures 3a and 3b in the main text
• 05_fig4a_b.R --- Code for reproducing figures 4a and 4b in the main text
• 06_fig5a_b.R --- Code for reproducing figures 5a and 5b in the main text