Replication Data for: Bunea, Adriana; Sergiu Lipcean; and Christian Rauh (2026) "Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach", forthcoming in Governance

Replication files for Bunea/Lipcean/Rauh (2026) “Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach”, forthcoming in Governance Guide to the repository: The replication archive is organized as an RStudio project, please start from BuneaLipceanRauh-Governance-Replication.Rproj to have all relative paths working in your environment All additional R packages used are indicated with version number and source close to the top of each script. 0_MainAnalyses_BuneaLipceanRauh_2026_InformationQuality_Governance.Rmd replicates the results reported in the main article text (output in 0_MainAnalyses_BuneaLipceanRauh_2026_InformationQuality_Governance.pdf) 1_Appendix_BuneaLipceanRauh_2026_InformationQuality_Governance.Rmd replicates the supplementary appendices (output in 1_Appendix_BuneaLipceanRauh_2026_InformationQuality_Governance.pdf) X_TextMeasureValidation.R replicates the validation of the text indicators against human codes (Appendix A) X_Simex.R and X-Simex-DV-function.R are needed to replicate the robustness check in Appendix F (note very long run times) Folder Data holds all large data files on the input and intermediary output side Folder Figures holds all plots reported in the main text and the appendices as png files Folder HumanCoderResults holds the human ratings of sampled text snippets used in the validation of the text-as-data measures Folder ValidationPlots holds the visual results of the human validation exercise (generated by X_TextMeasureValidation.R) Folder AdditionalDocumentation holds documentation of prior steps not directly replicated here (a.o. extraction of the text-based information quality measures and construction of the human coder samples) If you are missing anything, please contact Christian Rauh. The corpora on EC consultations and feedback texts is currently being expanded in the CONSULATIONEFFECTS project. If you require access to full text variables, please contact Adriana Bunea.