Jeffrey
Conroy-Krutz—Experimental Data
Photo: Village in Galiraaya Sub-County, Bbaale County, Kayunga District, Uganda
In
early 2008, I conducted a survey on media consumption and political
attitudes in two districts of Uganda. Embedded in the survey was
an experiment, in which respondents were asked to listen to a series of
fifteen sets of vignettes about hypothetical candidates in two-party
races for local sub-county (LC3) chairmanships and select favored
candidates. Respondents' preferences in two "baseline" elections,
in which no information about candidates other than their ethnicity or
patronage-distributing behavior, were compared to later "treatments,"
in which various types of information about candidates--their party
affiliation, education levels, scrupulousness, popularity, stance on a
controversial issue (conversion of protected forests to agriculture),
and past performance as an office-holder--were presented. The
goal of the project was to identify how elastic support for co-ethnics
and goods distributors would be in the presence of other types of
information that presented them in a negative light vis-à
The survey involved 370 participants in Makindye Division (Kampala District) and Bbaale County (Kayunga District).
For more on the general project, go to my Dissertation Project page.
For full details of the sampling procedure, go here.
Full versions of the survey, in PDF versions, can be found here [English] and here [Luganda].
A full dataset of survey results, along with a codebook, forthcoming.
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