Replication Data for: Good Riddance to Bad Government? Institutional Performance Voting in Swedish Municipalities (doi:10.7910/DVN/UINA0X)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: Good Riddance to Bad Government? Institutional Performance Voting in Swedish Municipalities

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/UINA0X

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2021-06-09

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Broms, Rasmus, 2021, "Replication Data for: Good Riddance to Bad Government? Institutional Performance Voting in Swedish Municipalities", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UINA0X, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:wVcP0bSIzykXiANVzU2PBQ== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: Good Riddance to Bad Government? Institutional Performance Voting in Swedish Municipalities

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/UINA0X

Authoring Entity:

Broms, Rasmus (University of Gothenburg)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Broms, Rasmus

Depositor:

Broms, Rasmus

Date of Deposit:

2021-06-04

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UINA0X

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, Retrospective voting, Institutional quality, Sweden

Abstract:

Electoral 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.

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Sources Statement

Data Access

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

Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f4777462

File: grbg_replication_210604.tab

  • Number of cases: 910

  • No. of variables per record: 23

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

Notes:

UNF:6:wVcP0bSIzykXiANVzU2PBQ==

Data file

Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

mc

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 715.8092548601478; Max. 2584.0; Min. 114.0; Mean 1382.041758241748; Valid 910.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:AuUyPAzkwVR2Bq6ZaFJgqw==

year

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 910.0; Min. 2003.0; Mean 2009.8945054945054; Max. 2014.0; StDev 3.3031425726579555

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:HRko9h0Fr0SecP58bDkAhA==

term

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 2.997802197802198; Valid 910.0; Min. 2.0; StDev 0.815145147195431; Max. 4.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ovQiNsSmUO38LHMq/fH0NQ==

mayoralparty

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.2343444921861348; Min. 1.0; Max. 8.0; Valid 909.0; Mean 1.892189218921893;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:NQL47AlZVPggn16RtKyA8g==

mayoralpartympother

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 1.8932893289328927; StDev 1.2393373713162563; Max. 8.0; Valid 909.0; Min. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:SHd9xEBKzstfQeP1gP034Q==

dvsmp

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 6.120541841653396; Min. -33.099998; Max. 20.1; Mean -1.85907590140814; Valid 909.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:yNm6Y9uYkccmJ9JFwnHdnA==

dvsmpdiff

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 4.975083264956034; Min. -29.0; Valid 897.0; Mean -0.35027870734671024; Max. 23.6

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:6t35GFMXAVXx/owpKd5HQw==

pvsmp

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 33.07953794576458; Min. 1.1; Valid 909.0; StDev 11.163736318890404; Max. 67.400002;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:p2edpaeeVVYC+Tr5z3FbkA==

pvsmpdiff

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 7.748819903433717; Valid 897.0; Min. -26.799999; Max. 48.900002; Mean 1.3086956503121525

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:R/HCJAkqXQvLufscjtKjOg==

mpreelected

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 910.0; Mean 0.6846153846153846; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.4649243942753647; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:syVrEUfBx7RgayuCXw3xyg==

tcritique

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.44323024704841163; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Valid 910.0; Mean 0.268131868131868;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:1kGQOVCAIa2JniVCfyK4rA==

sample

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Valid 910.0; Min. 1.0; StDev 0.0; Mean 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:d7XDPhYhVmRRonug1NoxGA==

govsample

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.0; Min. 1.0; Mean 1.0; Valid 902.0; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:zrMKJXcVQRza31Fqs7NYTA==

coalition

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.3409105067986548; Max. 1.0; Valid 910.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.8659340659340659

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:yn6P1kf95oFLtP1V2OE14g==

sumkol_respc

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.8801146240880219; Max. 28.681595; StDev 1.4426095375350645; Valid 910.0; Min. -11.782988;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:IN7ZxPYo9/nYoyqhdOXQxA==

anntenurediffscb_meaninc

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.5682894534324449; Max. 5.758852; Mean 2.8260352553736263; Valid 910.0; Min. 0.20263889

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:hdT1vp+r61u0+dxHbmcPmQ==

anntenurediffscb_openunemp

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 2.45; Valid 910.0; Mean -0.06013846159890075; Min. -3.8; StDev 0.5786322856727659;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:TDgJDqtcxEHGBVOgtqmALQ==

tenurediffscb_muntax_te

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.1483846153362637; Min. -0.66000003; Max. 1.65; Valid 910.0; StDev 0.30767542119077573

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:4S8wwfTiyh6vTgNeqC6nXA==

kol_respc

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 2.036858008962871; Max. 27.85; Min. -11.782988; Valid 910.0; Mean 1.1928882794892308

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:s19/ylgGhXvRHiaX1HMTHA==

scb_meaninc

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 472.89999; Valid 910.0; StDev 34.497043074995304; Mean 224.57417524175827; Min. 168.3

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:P6y8P8duPqUarI7FaS0fdw==

scb_openunemp

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 3.9000001; Valid 910.0; StDev 3.442968014884804; Max. 28.700001; Mean 13.52142857054945

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:+ynhERpYV54qm7i9tarz2w==

scb_muntax_te

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 17.27820882637363; Valid 910.0; StDev 1.3294809840609858; Min. 13.54; Max. 33.599998

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:7eiOEswmAuQEAisWdhmBbw==

logscb_pop

f4777462 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 910.0; Mean 9.807040172527472; StDev 0.9353462998206867; Min. 7.8042512; Max. 13.723383

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:LiqtpKESH0HbffYyCBwEOw==

Other Study-Related Materials

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grbg_replication_210604.do

Text:

Do-file producing tables and figures

Notes:

application/x-stata-syntax

Other Study-Related Materials

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readme.txt

Text:

General information & variable list

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text/plain