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Replication Data for: "Sources of Incumbency (Dis)Advantage"

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Title Replication Data for: "Sources of Incumbency (Dis)Advantage"
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5GVHTE
 
Creator Avelino Filho, George
Biderman, Ciro
Desposato, Scott
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description An emerging literature finds that legislators frequently suffer a negative incumbency advantage in developing countries but disagrees as to the sources of this anti-incumbent bias. We contribute to this literature by examining the case of Brazil, where the extant literature predicts a large incumbency disadvantage. Building a new methodology for OLPR which leverages both inter- and intraparty thresholds, we find, contrary to expectations, a large ‘positive’ incumbency advantage. We further exploit within-country variation and show that this advantage appears to be largest in the least developed areas. Our results suggest that previous work may be confounding country-specific factors with development levels.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Electoral systems
electoral strategies
incumbency advantage
regression discontinuity Design
Brazil
 
Language English
 
Date 2021-11-30
 
Contributor Martins, Debora