Replication Archive: Technocratic versus Populist Political Orientations in Contemporary Germany

Replication Archive: Technocratic versus Populist Political Orientations in Contemporary Germany This repository contains replication materials for the paper Technocratic versus Populist Political Orientations in Contemporary Germany. The study analyzes ideological clustering and party alignment of technocratic and populist orientations using data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and World Values Survey (WVS). Contents Stata and R scripts for all stages of the analysis (data preparation, PCA and reliability testing, descriptive statistics, cluster analysis, and multinomial logistic regression). Appendix C (Word format) with representative code snippets and outputs, as included in the paper. README file with step-by-step instructions, software requirements, and data access notes. Data Access Due to licensing restrictions, the ESS and WVS datasets are not redistributed in this archive. Users can freely download them from the official sources: ESS Round 9: https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/data/ WVS Wave 7: https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/ Citation If you use these materials, please cite as:Barman, Keshab (2025). Replication Archive: Technocratic versus Populist Political Orientations in Contemporary Germany. zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17144550 License These replication materials are released under the CC-BY 4.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.