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

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication Data for: Good Riddance to Bad Government? Institutional Performance Voting in Swedish Municipalities
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UINA0X
 
Creator Broms, Rasmus
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description 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.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Retrospective voting
Institutional quality
Sweden
 
Contributor Broms, Rasmus