Replication Data for: Assessing Scalar Invariance Violations with Comparative Democratic Support Data

Replication material for: "Bad Mood Rising: Bad Mood Rising? Assessing Scalar Invariance Violations with Comparative Democratic Support Data (cond. accepted in: Public Opinion Quarterly, Sp. issue 2026: Advancing Public Opinion Research Across Countries and Contexts). Please reach out to Philip Warncke (https://philip-warncke.net/) for queries or bug reports. To replicate all figures and tables, please download and extract all files in this directory. Figures 1 through 4 can be reproduced by running "Figure_1.R" through "Figure_5.R." Please uncomment the relevant sections to re-run the computationally intensive simulation chunks (i.e., code components producing the .RDS data files.) Tables 1 and 2 are generated by Tables_1_2.R.