Replication Data for: Trump and the Shifting Meaning of "Conservative": Using Activists' Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians' Perceived Ideologies

This replication archive provides formatted data and R code on the perceived ideology of U.S. Senators asked in three YouGov surveys in 2016 and one in 2021. The 2021 survey also asked about several prominent politicians beyond Senators. Specifically, the Rdata objects include data frames in which each row represents a pair of politicians (denoted in the first two columns) and columns 3, 4, and 5 indicate the number of survey respondents who evaluated the first to be more liberal/conservative, the second to be more liberal/conservative, or the number not able to rank them. The data and code included enable replication of all analyses in the corresponding manuscript.