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Replication Data for: It’s Trade, Stupid! How Changes in Trade Competitiveness Affect Incumbents’ Electoral Success

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Title Replication Data for: It’s Trade, Stupid! How Changes in Trade Competitiveness Affect Incumbents’ Electoral Success
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OCCX2K
 
Creator Huber, Robert
Dür, Andreas
Stiller, Yannick
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The consequences of economic globalization for electoral outcomes have recently become a prominent topic of research. We complement the emerging literature on this topic by studying whether changes in a subnational region's trade competitiveness affect the incumbent's vote share in that region. Using a novel dataset that relates subnational trade competitiveness to election results in 29 countries over a twenty year period, we show that this is indeed the case. We also show that this effect is most pronounced for elections where the clarity of responsibility is high. Finally, we find mixed evidence for a moderating effect of incumbents' economic ideology as a moderator. These findings also contribute to the broader economic voting literature.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Date 2024-01-24
 
Contributor Huber, Robert