Replication data for: Balancing Demands: The World Economy and the Composition of Preferences

Does exposure to globalization bolster public support for the welfare state? Despite the current widespread use of large cross-national survey datasets, evidence regarding both the magnitude and direction of the globalization effect on preferences over social policy remains inconclusive. We argue that this inconsistency is due to two major limitations of most previous studies: one methodological and the other theoretical. First, we show how previous cross- country analysis of mass preferences that use country-level predictors fail to accurately repre- sent the true degree of uncertainty around the coefficients they estimate. Then, we run a three- level (individual, cross-sectoral and cross-country) hierarchical model of citizens social pol- icy preferences in developed democracies to show how sectoral coalitions in support of social policy vary both across countries and policy domains.