Replication data for: Social Protest and Policy Attitudes: The Case of the 2006 Immigrant Rallies

Do protests sway public opinion? If so, why and how? To address these questions we examine the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on immigration policy preferences. We use the 2006 Latino National Survey coupled with protest data to examine if temporal and spatial exposure to the protests are associated with policy preferences. Our findings lend evidence that protest activity influences Latinos' immigration policy preferences. However, the findings suggest the effect of protest on immigration policy preferences is not uniform across the population, but rather contingent on generational status and the intensity of protest activity at the local level.

抗议活动能否左右公众舆论？若可以，其背后的作用逻辑与具体路径为何？为解答上述问题，本研究考察了2006年移民抗议活动对移民政策偏好的影响。我们将2006年拉丁裔全国调查（Latino National Survey）与抗议活动数据相结合，分析个体在时间与空间维度上对抗议活动的接触是否与移民政策偏好存在关联。本研究结果证实，抗议活动确实会对拉丁裔群体的移民政策偏好产生影响。不过，研究发现抗议活动对移民政策偏好的影响并非在全体群体中保持一致，而是取决于个体的代际身份以及当地层面抗议活动的激烈程度。