Replication Data for: Pluralistic Collapse (ASR, 2020)

Replication data and code for "Pluralistic Collapse: The 'Oil Spill' Model of Mass Opinion Polarization." Code should be run in this order: Step 1 - Variable_Recodes.do (Stata; this can also be skipped if you just want to start with the R files and use the prepared GSS_Recoded.dta file) Step 2 - Create Pairs Step 3 - Gather Correlations Step 4 - Model Correlations Step 5 - Observed Networks Step 6 - Bootstrapping (parts1, 2, and 3 in that order) Step 7 - Plot Results Note that several of these steps are computationally intensive. The "parallel" package in R can be very useful for purposes of speeding up the computation. *Note*: In a previous version of this dataset, I forgot to include the Step 5 file which is used to generate the observed (non-bootstrapped) networks. This is now included, and the subsequent files have been relabeled.