Replication Data for: Good Riddance to Bad Government? Institutional Performance Voting in Swedish Municipalitieshttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UINA0XBroms, RasmusHarvard Dataverse2021-06-092021-06-09T14:43:18ZElectoral accountability is widely considered an essential component for maintaining the quality of a polity’s institutions. Nevertheless, a growing body of research has found weak or limited support for the notion that voters punish political corruption, a central but partial aspect of institutional quality. In order to capture the full range of institutional dysfunction an electorate should be incentivized to punish, I further the concept of institutional performance voting, that is, voting on institutional quality as a whole. Using a novel dataset on performance audit reports in Swedish municipalities between 2003 and 2014, I find that audit critique is associated with a statistically significant but substantively moderate electoral loss of about a percentage point for mayoral parties, while simultaneously associated with a 14 percentage point decrease in their probability of reelection.Social SciencesRetrospective votingInstitutional qualitySweden2021-06-09Broms, Rasmus2021-06-04CC0 1.0