Mid-Atlantic European Union Simulation Survey Dataset
The Mid-Atlantic European Union Simulation brings undergraduates from a dozen or more institutions to Washington, D.C. each year to spend three days simulating European Union decision-making, each student playing a named European political figure. This dataset, assembled with John Scherpereel of James Madison University, is the student survey that has run alongside it: 924 responses collected between 2015 and 2020 at 13 institutions, of which 544 are matched into 272 pre/post pairs, organized around knowledge of the European Union, engagement with politics, self-assessed skills, and empathy toward the figure each student played. We have used these data in two published studies, one drawing on the 2015 simulation and one following four consecutive years from 2017, both asking what participation adds to what a semester course already delivers. This release is built directly from the original survey exports rather than from the analysis files behind either paper, so it retains the unmatched respondents, keeps every original coding alongside each correction, and codes institutions rather than naming them.
- Codebook (PDF) — full documentation of the dataset: how it was built, coverage year by year, every variable with its coding and source question, the derived measures, and an honest account of the limits
Anyone interested in the data file should contact me at clarkn@susqu.edu.
