Replication Data for: DC On My Mind: Voter Evaluations of Nationalized Policy Positions in State and Local Elections

Recent research demonstrates that national, state, and local election outcomes are becoming closely correlated, raising concerns that political accountability may be undermined by voters making electoral decisions using information irrelevant to subnational governance. The observational and aggregate data used to make these conclusions, however, are consistent with an alternative: the dimensions of national and subnational politics are correlated, and voters make informed decisions with imperfect but useful information. We distinguish between these possibilities using conjoint experiments varying the contested office level and candidate policy positions across national, state, and local politics. We find national issues more strongly affect candidate selection, but do not eliminate the effects of state and local issues. Additionally, national, state, and local issues affect candidate selection for all levels of office. Our results suggest U.S. politics is nationalized, but not fundamentally broken, with meaningful opportunities for the enforcement of political accountability in low-information settings.