10.7910/DVN/WK0DA7Sances, Michael W.Michael W.SancesTemple UniversityHarvard Dataverse2020Social SciencesAccountabilityEconomic votingRetrospective votingPublic opinionSurveysSances, Michael W.Michael W.SancesSances, Michael W.Michael W.Sances2020-06-092022-04-2710.1111/ajps.12588430081457515905846986601379263537175646812584117308962100138417111001826082758444122882420822385214772468110949190291775134311894092538926101934298172297405196111249411632312075962612934863272991913579106618419633403781324031685531044819169583208472560092027111776921610178452736108961151241521915960758713471957224815046183537254376470733732982163257873590225226301809462643165686531610011550388541773152354706331561233451612350013779316637791354143938743874460738743874470414586496641300149664application/vnd.ms-exceltext/tab-separated-valuesapplication/dbfapplication/shpapplication/pdfapplication/x-stata-syntaxtext/x-r-sourcetext/x-r-sourcetext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuesapplication/vnd.ms-exceltext/plaintext/plaintext/plainapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/pdfapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/pdfapplication/x-stata-syntaximage/pngapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/pdfapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/pdfapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/pdfapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/pdfapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/pdfapplication/vnd.ms-exceltext/tab-separated-valuesapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheetapplication/vnd.ms-exceltext/tab-separated-valuesapplication/pdftext/plainapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/octet-streamapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxtext/tab-separated-valuesapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-texapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxapplication/x-texapplication/x-texapplication/x-stata-syntaxtext/tab-separated-valuesapplication/vnd.ms-exceltext/tab-separated-valuesapplication/vnd.ms-excel1.1Are leaders held accountable for inherited conditions, and does accountability increase with time in office? I combine hundreds of opinion polls to test how new presidents are rewarded or punished for current economic perceptions, and how these judgments evolve over time. I find the economy influences voter evaluations in a president's first year, that it influences evaluations more so in the second year, and that it does not influence evaluations any more in later years. Surveys of governor approval and state economic conditions yield similar results, as does an original survey experiment exploiting the varying tenure of state governors in the wake of the 2018 elections. While raising questions about voter competence, these findings also suggest leaders have incentives to spread effort more broadly over their terms.This dataset underwent an independent verification process that replicated the tables and figures in the primary article. For the supplementary materials, verification was performed solely for the successful execution of code. Per the AJPS editors approval, the variable documentation in the codebook does not describe all the missing values in the data. The verification process was carried out by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. <br></br> The associated article has been awarded Open Materials and Open Data PA Badges. The author can not share all of the datasets in Dataverse due to terms of use restrictions; however, these datasets are available publicly from a trusted repository. Learn more about the Open Practice Badges from the <a href="https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki/home/" target="_blank">Center for Open Science</a>.<br></br> <img src="https://odum.unc.edu/files/2020/03/OpenData_PA_PR-1.png" alt="Open Data PA Badge" height="77" width="80"> <img src="https://odum.unc.edu/files/2020/03/OpenMaterials_PR-1.png" alt="Open Materials Badge" height="77" width="80">