Replication Data for: Do Voting Advice Applications Change Political Behavior? (doi:10.7910/DVN/4KRZCG)

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Replication Data for: Do Voting Advice Applications Change Political Behavior?

doi:10.7910/DVN/4KRZCG

Harvard Dataverse

2022-08-12

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Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino; Schelker, Mark; Schmid, Lukas, 2022, "Replication Data for: Do Voting Advice Applications Change Political Behavior?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4KRZCG, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:pxG7rBfOWeUmllgp6DmH5w== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: Do Voting Advice Applications Change Political Behavior?

doi:10.7910/DVN/4KRZCG

Benesch, Christine (University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich)

Heim, Rino (University of Lucerne)

Schelker, Mark (University of Fribourg)

Schmid, Lukas (University of Lucerne)

Harvard Dataverse

Heim, Rino

Heim, Rino

2022-05-20

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4KRZCG

Social Sciences, Social Sciences

This is the replication archive for the paper "Do Voting Advice Applications Change Political Behavior? "

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• canton_name - Name of the Canton
• canton - Canton Abbreviation
• canton_id - ID Canton
• year - Election Year
• time - Election Period
• Smartvote - Smartvote Availability
• eligibles - Eligible Voters
• concurrent - Concurrent Federal Referendum
• concurrent_canton - Concurrent Cantonal Referendum
• postal - Postal Voting
• voting_age_16 - Voting Age 16
• pukelsheim - Pukelsheim
• size_par - Parliament Size
• turnout - Turnout
• ballots_mod - Share of Modified Ballots
• vote_ext - Share Panache Votes
• vote_own_ch - Share Cumulative Votes
• vote_mod - Share of Votes from Modified Ballots
• vs_svp - Vote Share SVP
• vs_sp - Vote Share SP
• vs_cvp - Vote Share CVP
• vs_fdp - Vote Share FDP
• vs_svp_bdp - Vote Share SVP (BDP)
• vote_ext_cvp - Share of Panache Votes CVP
• vote_ext_svp - Share of Panache Votes SVP
• vote_ext_fdp - Share of Panache Votes FDP
• vote_ext_sp - Share of Panache Votes SP
• vote_unch_cvp - Share of Votes from Unmodified Ballots CVP
• vote_unch_svp - Share of Votes from Unmodified Ballots SVP
• vote_unch_fdp - Share of Votes from Unmodified Ballots FDP
• vote_unch_sp - Share of Votes from Unmodified Ballots SP
• vs_incumbent - Vote Share Incumbents
• ps_other - Vote Share Other Parties
• sm_users - sm_users
• time - time
• panache - panache
• all - all
• nobs_p - nobs_p
• nobs_np - nobs_np
• party - party
• year - year
• period - period
• canton_abbr - canton_abbr
• voters - voters
• part_cand - part_cand
• v_advices - v_advices
• smartvote - smartvote
• age - age
• sex - sex
• female - female
• stla - stla
• ogr - ogr
• f10100 - f10100
• f15200 - f15200
• year - year
• educ_rr - educ_rr
• f11100 - f11100
• scalknow - scalknow
• region - region
• big_mun - big_mun
• left - left
• right - right
• middle - middle
• party - party
• old - old
• young - young
• uni - uni
• know - know
• interest - interest
• turnout - turnout

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Summary Statistics: Min. 25.0; Valid 32.0; Max. 200.0; Mean 101.125; StDev 65.88834641686182

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Summary Statistics: Max. 112.0; StDev 37.87585834223814; Valid 32.0; Min. 9.0; Mean 47.0

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Summary Statistics: Mean 2012.2244897959183; Valid 49.0; Min. 2004.0; StDev 4.119391672941773; Max. 2018.0;

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Summary Statistics: Valid 14033.0; Max. 96.0; Min. 1.0; StDev 19.11928865332871; Mean 44.80552982256112

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Summary Statistics: Valid 14120.0; Min. 2007.0; StDev 3.309603023945023; Max. 2015.0; Mean 2011.2677053824357

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Summary Statistics: Valid 13174.0; Mean 0.19136177318961758; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.3933880932255838

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Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Valid 13174.0; Mean 0.6649461059663001; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.47202721845467493;

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Summary Statistics: Valid 14033.0; Mean 0.5747879997149457; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.4943927314512537; Max. 1.0

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Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Valid 13969.0; StDev 0.41641193188673337; Mean 0.2232085331806144; Max. 1.0

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.42727401731232517; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.4947002076487853; Valid 14094.0;

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Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Valid 14067.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.45836378072180173; Mean 0.6997938437477761

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.4148133838725991; Mean 0.779183259155143; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; Valid 12807.0

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Figure 1 - The Availability of smartvote for Cantonal Elections

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Uses “df_elections.dta” to produce Figure 1.

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Figure 2 - Share of smartvote Users

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Uses “df_sm_usage.csv” to produce Figure 2.

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Figure 4 - Panache Votes of the Big Four Parties

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Uses “df_panache_votes.csv” to produce Figure 4.

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Figure A1 - Event Study

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Uses “df_elections.dta” to produce Figure A.1.

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Table 1 - The Usage of smartvote in Cantonal Elections

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Uses “df_part_sm.csv” to produce Table 1.

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Table 2 - Descriptive Statistics of Cantonal Elections in Switzerland

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Uses “df_elections.dta” to produce Table 2.

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Table 3 - Effect of smartvote on Voter Turnout and Voting Behavior

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Uses “df_elections.dta” to Produce Table 3.

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Table 4 - Effect of smartvote on Party Level Outcomes

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Uses “df_elections.dta” to Produce Table 4.

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Table 5 - Effect of smartvote on Electoral Outcomes

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Uses “df_elections.dta” to Produce Table 5.

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Table 6 - Selective Treatment Timing and Dynamic Treatment Effects

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Uses “df_elections.dta” to produce Table 6.

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Table 7 - Effect of smartvote on Voter Turnout and Voting Behavior with Pre-Treatment-Group-Specific Time Trends

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Uses “df_elections.dta” to Produce Table 7.

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