Replication Data for: Representation in Municipal Governments: A Replication and Extension to School Districts

In \"Representation and Municipal Government,\" Tausanovitch and Warshaw (2014) examine the extent to which cities in the U.S. are responsive to the views of their citizens. Using a multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP) model, the authors pool survey data to predict citizen preferences for U.S. cities with more than 20,000 citizens. They then compare citizen policy preferences with policy outputs at the municipal-level. The authors find that policy outputs correspond with the liberal-conservative policy preferences of citizens, but that institutions (e.g. having an elected mayor, partisan elections, etc.) have little to no impact on policy responsiveness. We provide two extensions. First, we replicate their core findings and use their estimated ideology scores to show that school district policies are strongly associated with citizen-level policy views. Second, we follow their entire methodological process with new survey data and create true school district-level estimates of ideology. These initial results suggest that school district policies largely correspond with the views of the citizens represented by them.