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Replication data for: Something old, something new .... Institutions and turnout in Western democracies

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Title Replication data for: Something old, something new .... Institutions and turnout in Western democracies
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2D7EFV
 
Creator Kai Arzheimer
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Michael Lister (2007) makes a useful contribution
to the discussion on aggregate variables that foster or depress
turnout by drawing attention to societal factors, but his analysis
is fraught with methodological problems. While his article builds
on an interesting theoretical argument about the
impact of institutions on attitudes, his claims about causal relationships are
not backed by data. There is no rationale for the selection of
countries, and most explana
tory variables are actually constant
within countries. The specification of the model is problematic in
many ways. A careful re-analysis shows that the t-values reported
in Lister's article are far too large, and that the estimates for
Lister's model are highly unstable and dependent on the selection
of observations. There is no robust evidence for a universal,
politically relevant relationship between inequality and turnout.
 
Subject turnout,institutions, replication, PCSE, TSCS
 
Date 2007
 
Type aggregate data