Italian Citizens’ Preference for Technocratic Ministers doi:10.34934/DVN/CZWD06 Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA 2025-02-27 1 Vittori, Davide; Pilet, Jean-Benoit; Rojon, Sebastien; Paulis, Emilien; Theuwis, Marie-Isabel, 2025, "Italian Citizens’ Preference for Technocratic Ministers", https://doi.org/10.34934/DVN/CZWD06, Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA, V1, UNF:6:0oVU9x/Yro2X6EomTy2rsg== [fileUNF] Italian Citizens’ Preference for Technocratic Ministers Is preference for technocracy widespread among Italian citizens? doi:10.34934/DVN/CZWD06 Vittori, Davide Pilet, Jean-Benoit Rojon, Sebastien Paulis, Emilien Theuwis, Marie-Isabel Pilet, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Jean-Benoit 2021-06-01 Italy excel Grant agreement No. 773023 Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA Vittori, Davide Vittori, Davide Vittori, Davide 2025-02-26 2025-02-27 Social Sciences Political science Political scieince The 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. 2021-06-01 2022-08-31 2022-07-23 2022-08-11 2022-06-21 2022-07-11 Survey data Italy Region Individuals Italian citizens Cross-section Survey company - DEMETRA CAWI Stratification criteria to match the actual population: age, education, area of residence and gender. <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). Vittori, 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.2022.102566 Italy - First wave - Dataset.tab 5003 68 text/tab-separated-values UNF:6:90ay5dHhgeSilM4GAlBWuQ== Italy - Second wave - Dataset.tab 5006 92 text/tab-separated-values UNF:6:b5gfqIRTORrGx7ckCSp9Qg== CASEid 0.0 5003.0 1619.3177315850123 21.0 2795.0 5651.0 2801.7567459524403 . 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