Italian Citizens’ Preference for Technocratic Ministershttps://doi.org/10.34934/DVN/CZWD06Vittori, DavidePilet, Jean-BenoitRojon, SebastienPaulis, EmilienTheuwis, Marie-IsabelSocial Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA2025-02-272025-02-27T13:32:13ZThe datasets consist of two cross-sectional waves designed to measure Italian citizens' preferences for technocratic ministers. Each wave includes approximately 5,000 respondents and features an experimental component. In Wave 1, the experiment assesses preferences for policies implemented by either a technocratic or a partisan minister. Wave 2 replicates the experimental design with a different policy while also introducing an additional experiment to evaluate preferences for mixed decision-making processes.Social SciencesPolitical scienceEnglishVittori, D., Rojon, S., Pilet J.B., and Paulis, E. 2024. Beyond parliamentarism: how do citizens want to decide on divisive policies? Comparative European Politics, 22, 685–715. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-024-00379-3. Vittori, D., Paulis, E., Pilet, J.B., and Rojon, S. 2023. Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy. Electoral Studies, 81, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2022.1025662021-06-01Vittori, DavidePilet, Jean-Benoit2025-02-262021-06-012022-08-312022-07-232022-08-112022-06-212022-07-11Survey dataItaly<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a> (CC-BY).