Reproduction files for "Is Public Opinion Stable? Resolving the Micro-Macro Disconnect in Studies of Public Opinion."

This repository contains a simple R analysis file that reproduces the figure in the article "Is Public Opinion Stable?" showing media coverage and polling regarding the USA PATRIOT Act. The files include the R syntax file and two data sources (a file containing questions about the Patriot Act from the Roper Center's iPoll databank and a file containing details of New York Times news articles about the policy). Executing the "figure.R" file will produce a PDF figure identical to the one reported in the paper.