Replication Data for "The Electoral Benefits of Opportunistic Election Timing" (doi:10.7910/DVN/CVBXQX)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for "The Electoral Benefits of Opportunistic Election Timing"

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/CVBXQX

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2015-12-17

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Schleiter, Petra; Tavits, Margit, 2015, "Replication Data for "The Electoral Benefits of Opportunistic Election Timing"", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CVBXQX, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:kv54qH2msUo3Dlv0m/ImrA== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for "The Electoral Benefits of Opportunistic Election Timing"

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/CVBXQX

Authoring Entity:

Schleiter, Petra (University of Oxford)

Tavits, Margit (Washington University in St. Louis)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Schleiter, Petra

Depositor:

Tavits, Margit

Date of Deposit:

2015-12-17

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CVBXQX

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences

Abstract:

Stata dataset and do file to replicate the results of the analyses reported in the paper.

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Access

Notes:

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f2743470

File: Schleiter_Tavits_JoP_2015_replication_data.tab

  • Number of cases: 318

  • No. of variables per record: 37

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:6:kv54qH2msUo3Dlv0m/ImrA==

Stata dataset

Variable Description

List of Variables:
  • cc_id - cc_idet
  • country - country
  • year - Calendar year
  • fd - Date of cabinet formation
  • td - Date of cabinet termination
  • pd - Parliamentary election date
  • term1 - Binary regular election
  • term2 - Opportunistic Election
  • term3 - Binary failure election
  • disspm - PM dissolution power
  • dissjointgov - Govt dissolution power
  • pm - Name of Prime Minister
  • surv_pm - PM survival
  • gov_s - Single party government
  • gov_min - Minority government
  • gov_med - Median party in government
  • pm_med - PM median party
  • enp2 - Effective number of parties
  • range_g - Government polarization
  • pm_seat_shares_next - PM party seat share
  • countryn - Country id
  • fsu_eeu - Former Soviet Eastern European countries
  • cpi6m - Inflation (6m lagged)
  • dumlagcpi - Dummy for dataseries change in CPI lagged six months
  • gdp_chg6m - GDP growth (6m lagged)
  • cpi1yr - Inflation (1yr lagged)
  • gdp_chg1yr - GDP Growth (1yr lagged)
  • dumcpi1yr - Dummy for dataseries change in CPI lagged one year
  • decade - Decade in which government terminates in election
  • pm_voteshare - PM Party vote share
  • pm_voteshare_next - PM party vote share
  • disspm_0 - PM dissolution power >= 0
  • disspm_8 - PM dissolution power >= 8
  • govs_gdpch1yr - Single party government*GDP growth
  • govs_cpi1yr - Single party government*Inflation
  • ciep3 - Three year parl. term
  • major_elect - Majoritarian electoral system

Variables

cc_idet

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 318.0; Mean 1791.9968553459084; Min. 105.0; Max. 3318.0; StDev 719.0664009318406;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:6WpmT208SUSkhJqugemaEQ==

country

f2743470 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:l/t7VsXByloAmnn6gkH7eg==

Calendar year

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 18.966917087731154; Valid 318.0; Mean 1984.8301886792453; Min. 1946.0; Max. 2013.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:zNny5dWe7C4XljB8D8YxCg==

Date of cabinet formation

f2743470 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:P1sW+8X5Bpib4J7NVHTjOg==

Date of cabinet termination

f2743470 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:gY1UVIiG8t6s2uYBenUV2w==

Parliamentary election date

f2743470 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:C08QK4zjT789odxM+ThdvQ==

Binary regular election

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 318.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.5849056603773584; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.4935148742794404;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:W47LKqhLDRRpEg9rZEzzlQ==

Opportunistic Election

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; StDev 0.3458266267804293; Mean 0.13836477987421367; Min. 0.0; Valid 318.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:a86zewpISfONJp+ciXQ52g==

Binary failure election

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.44808670980292736; Mean 0.27672955974842733; Valid 318.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:KqWnusCrN8SGpVL5bv2noA==

PM dissolution power

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Valid 317.0; Mean 2.339221876126359; Max. 10.0; StDev 3.9738670874029345

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ZHJESF/wwfIU3AqSBqtzFg==

Govt dissolution power

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Max. 10.0; StDev 3.9604995072979006; Valid 317.0; Mean 5.068594916009754

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:FLFFixHBRVcsWw4VLzuspw==

Name of Prime Minister

f2743470 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:VYW02kPBV77YvuLwK2bjnw==

PM survival

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Valid 318.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.5006295265184165; Mean 0.48742138364779847

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:GGIbXqPFOHAtz2FjV4ApRQ==

Single party government

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Valid 318.0; StDev 0.4753825116983429; Mean 0.34276729559748415;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:xV+HhgDVuDmJ6Z/1PoG8GA==

Minority government

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 318.0; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.46376339176636855; Mean 0.3113207547169814

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:HtWmxfl/L434wFGp0smh9g==

Median party in government

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.44178835382703274; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.7354838709677419; Valid 310.0; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:gAEPTizbFn7qNjd9mcvBxQ==

PM median party

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.5387096774193546; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Valid 310.0; StDev 0.49930529042380817;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:n1ALmtPCPqHj6mwgONTLLA==

Effective number of parties

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 10.3800001144409; Min. 1.75999999046326; StDev 1.4056458924964734; Valid 318.0; Mean 3.7800000075274296

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Cl8pJb2SCszOu5sSywqFzg==

Government polarization

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 121.8741951; Valid 313.0; StDev 19.182222107021037; Min. 0.0; Mean 16.321952796587855

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:gk8ZM5MXEeJQa7LzXM8fcw==

PM party seat share

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 63.38461538461539; Min. 0.0; Valid 318.0; StDev 13.635291033491253; Mean 34.67066375804737

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:UqS4i1NXgxuZBHoYZ7KZ1A==

Country id

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 7.204270525097028; Mean 17.767295597484303; Valid 318.0; Min. 1.0; Max. 33.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:JREPvLUSfYyX9D/xyYRwVg==

Former Soviet Eastern European countries

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.37042415515050614; Valid 318.0; Mean 0.1635220125786162; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:7bt5j7Kkavdcs3cBKecedg==

Inflation (6m lagged)

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 20.24189283479493; Mean 8.169476531929382; Valid 294.0; Min. -1.724137931034475; Max. 230.622489959839

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:PDgnKQACK9pqGNJGDsEk6g==

Dummy for dataseries change in CPI lagged six months

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 318.0; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.01257861635220126; StDev 0.11162247004478813

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:1m6DWJgcOk91Hv4cqto2Lg==

GDP growth (6m lagged)

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 19.12507438659668; Min. -12.685327529907227; StDev 3.3641464059312054; Valid 276.0; Mean 2.8134878214070764

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:vSbfugcm+pNef50+lyrVAQ==

Inflation (1yr lagged)

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 114.83290100097656; Min. -1.145753026008606; Mean 7.167567433240791; Valid 292.0; StDev 10.531129409713445

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:bg3FKDq+TLkem7hecTsmhw==

GDP Growth (1yr lagged)

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 3.7644052788870734; Min. -17.216211318969727; Mean 3.0678743445545633; Max. 27.603771209716797; Valid 282.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:KDt5PPV3xGrDnHjWEXDRqA==

Dummy for dataseries change in CPI lagged one year

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.12459883447053431; Min. 0.0; Valid 318.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.015723270440251555;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:NLrTQP9i9iBhxE9iUODT3w==

Decade in which government terminates in election

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 318.0; Min. 1940.0; Max. 2010.0; Mean 1980.2201257861636; StDev 19.430746651674006;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:a1HkVnszIyJyBEmAb2kP4g==

PM Party vote share

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 10.326471315759262; Max. 66.30000305175781; Min. 9.399999618530273; Valid 318.0; Mean 34.78270434133661;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:08k1/X+EuDXzbDozFTSTNg==

PM party vote share

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Mean 32.024213811886376; Max. 58.599998474121094; StDev 11.517700458333708; Valid 318.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:JuVY3bYSyOtg8BsgzFBZRw==

PM dissolution power >= 0

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.45602884210944666; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.2933753943217663; Min. 0.0; Valid 317.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:354FTVlkwTOMniDpqz4KyA==

PM dissolution power >= 8

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 317.0; StDev 0.40666393256230443; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.20820189274447945; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:dULN0Psu29jJYM9GfPFRVg==

Single party government*GDP growth

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. -10.908114433288574; Max. 14.025057792663574; Valid 282.0; Mean 1.1472585453050776; StDev 2.4043079396630267;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:lktIG4gkKV05ffwpReBb7Q==

Single party government*Inflation

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. -0.299664169549942; StDev 5.238428618778077; Valid 292.0; Max. 39.656795501708984; Mean 2.500843274062627

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:uxaXkWNrAW3MhkKHbn8yWg==

Three year parl. term

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.047169811320754644; Valid 318.0; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.21233605908553735;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:P1WDXpLUIq1bFtKk7ZPBuw==

Majoritarian electoral system

f2743470 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Valid 318.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.2791805673380851; Mean 0.08490566037735849

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ivjBffaCplEx4HQfLo2bjQ==

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

Schleiter_Tavits_JoP_2015_replication_code.do

Text:

Stata do file

Notes:

application/x-stata-syntax