Post

One really cool part is the data we collected. We recovered Cold War-era USIA-funded polls of Indian public opinion that had been sitting in punchcard format at the Roper Center. We wrote code to parse them and are sharing it (github.com/milliff/leni...) so other researchers can build on our work.

There's a lot more material in these surveys for anyone working on South Asia. @pstaniland.bsky.social and a team of RAs even built an index of all ~1,500 foreign policy questions from decades of physical IIOPO reports. You can find that index in the replication material, too.