Replication Data for: Experimentally Estimating Safety in Numbers in a Single-Party Legislature

This research note builds upon recent experimental work in the Vietnamese National Assembly (VNA) to explore a critical qualification regarding potential responsiveness in authoritarian parliaments: delegates grow increasingly responsive as the number of peers possessing the same information rises. This reinforcement, or "safety-in-numbers," effect arises because speaking in authoritarian assemblies is an intrinsically dangerous task, and delegates are reluctant to do so without confidence in the information they would present. This logic contrasts sharply with the notion of performative responsiveness occurring in more democratic parliaments. Here we describe the saturation design for the original experiment, theorize safety-in-numbers behavior among authoritarian legislators, and test additional observable implications of the logic.