ICAapp {ccmEstimator}

Application data

Description

Application data used to illustrate comparative causal mediation analysis methods in Bansak (2020).

Usage

ICAapp

Format

a data frame with 14 variables

respid

Anonymized respondent id.

appr

Approval of U.S. government's decision. Response options include "Approve Strongly" (1), "Approve" (2), "Neither Approve nor Disapprove" (3), "Disapprove" (4), and "Disapprove Strongly" (5).

dapprp

Indicator for disapproval of U.S. government's decision. Dichotomized version of 'appr', with 1 indicating "Disapprove" or "Disapprove Strongly", and 0 otherwise.

vote

Propensity to reward/punish U.S. Senator who supported U.S. government's decision, in the form of increased/decreased willingness to vote for Senator. Response options include "Increase Greatly" (1), "Increase" (2), "Neither Increase nor Decrease" (3), "Decrease" (4), and "Decrease Greatly" (5).

nvotep

Indicator for being less likely to vote for U.S. Senator who supported U.S. government's decision. Dichotomized version of 'vote', with 1 indicating "Decrease" or "Decrease Greatly", and 0 otherwise.

moral

Perceived immorality of U.S. government's decision. Response options include "Definitely Right" (1), "Probably Right" (2), "Not Morally Right or Wrong" (3), "Probably Wrong" (4), and "Definitely Wrong" (5).

immorp

Indicator for perceiving U.S. government's decision to be morally wrong. Dichotomized version of 'moral', with 1 indicating "Probably Wrong" or "Definitely Wrong", and 0 otherwise.

retal

Belief regarding whether U.S. government's decision would encourage adversaries to follow suit in the future. Response options include "Agree Strongly" (1), "Agree" (2), "Neither Agree nor Disagree" (3), "Disagree" (4), and "Disagree Strongly" (5).

retalp

Indicator for belief that U.S. government's decision would encourage adversaries to follow suit in the future. Dichotomized version of 'retal', with 1 indicating "Agree" or "Agree Strongly", and 0 otherwise.

trt1

Indicator for assignment to informal commitment treatment condition.

trt2

Indicator for assignment to legal commitment treatment condition.

age

Age of respondent.

male

Indicator for whether respondent is male (1) or female (0).

educ

Highest level of education achieved by respondent, including less than high school (1), high school (2), some college (3), and college graduate (4).

References

Bansak, K. (2020). Comparative causal mediation and relaxing the assumption of no mediator-outcome confounding: An application to international law and audience costs. Political Analysis, 28(2), 222-243.