### Replication files for

Scotto di Vettimo & Koop (2025) "Technocrats, reputation, and responsiveness in policy explanation", Governance.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70103

## To reproduce the analysis, put both files and replication code in the same directory

## Main files for replication:

- analysis_replication_data.rds
Main dataset for replicating all results.

- analysis_replication_code.R
This is the main replication code to reproduce all the tables and figures in the paper and in the Appendix.

## Additional files:

- speeches_media_coverage.rds
Dataset with media coverage of the selected speeches.  

- media_sentiment_scores.rds
Dataset with results of text analysis on media data in raw format. Each row is a sentence of a media article. Identifiers are Factiva codes for the article.

- figure_2.R
Additional code to reproduce figure with UK map. Called internally by the main replication code.

- boe_rel_lang_deberta-v3-large_hp_search.csv
Results of fine-tuning process of the LLM.
The fine-tuned model can be accessed and downloaded from: https://huggingface.co/michelescotto/boe_rel_lang_deberta-v3-large

- boe_rel_lang_deberta-v3-large_classification.csv
Results of the LLM classification of Bank of England speeches.

- worldcities.csv
Coordinates of cities to plot Figure 2.

## Queries
m.scottodivettimo@gmail.com / michelescottodivettimo.eu