Replication data for: Gubernatorial and Presidential Coattails in Brazil (doi:10.7910/DVN/82CWKQ)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Gubernatorial and Presidential Coattails in Brazil

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/82CWKQ

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2007-11-28

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1

Bibliographic Citation:

Thomas Brambor; William Roberts Clark; Matt Golder, 2007, "Replication data for: Gubernatorial and Presidential Coattails in Brazil", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/82CWKQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:9zLEqklsMKQnsksgQr60Rg== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Gubernatorial and Presidential Coattails in Brazil

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/82CWKQ

Authoring Entity:

Thomas Brambor (New York University)

William Roberts Clark (New York University)

Matt Golder (Florida State University)

Date of Production:

2004

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Distributor:

Matt Golder

Date of Deposit:

2007-08-28

Date of Distribution:

2007

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/82CWKQ

Study Scope

Abstract:

In ‘Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses’, we report the results of several replications that we conducted of analyses examining electoral institutions and party systems. One of these replications was of David Samuels’ article ‘The Gubernatorial Coattails Effect: Federalism and Congressional Elections in Brazil’ which appeared in the Journal of Politics in 2000. <br /><br /> In an article in the Journal of Politics, Samuels (2000) examines the relative impact of presidential and gubernatorial coattails on the composition of the Brazilian party system. Theory would suggest that temporally-proximate presidential and gubernatorial elections should exert a reductive effect on the number of electoral lists in legislative elections. However, this reductive effect should decline (and may become positive) as the number of presidential and gubernatorial candidates increases. Samuels argues that the unusual importance of the governor for office-seeking candidates in Brazilian legislative elections means that we should observe a gubernatorial coattails effect but not a presidential coattails effect in Brazil. This would help to explain why the party system at the national level is highly fragmented (6.3 effective parties), while the party system at the state level is more concentrated (only 3.3 effective parties). The results from three models seem to support his conjecture. However, Samuels draws conclusions from an interaction model that omits constitutive terms. Once these omitted terms are included, none of the coefficients on the variables of interest are significant at the 90% level. Plots of the marginal effect of gubernatorial elections on the number of electoral lists across the observed range of the modifying variable from all three models indicate that gubernatorial elections never exert a coattails effect. While two of the three models indicate that there is no presidential coattai ls effect either, one suggests that temporally-proximate presidential elections will increase the number of electoral lists if the number of presidential candidates is sufficiently high. Thus, contrary to the conclusions reached by Samuels, the evidence from a fully-specified model indicates that if there is a coattails effect in Brazilian elections then it is a presidential one and not a gubernatorial one. This indicates that gubernatorial coattails cannot explain why the state party system in Brazil is so much less fragmented than the national party system.

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Related Studies

Thomas Brambor, William Clark, Matt Golder. 2006. "Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses." Political Analysis 14: 63-82. doi:10.1093/pan/mpi014. <a href="http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/mgolder/faces/study/StudyPage.jsp?studyId=6265" target= "_new">dataverse available here</a>

Related Publications

Citation

Title:

Thomas Brambor, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder. 2004. "Gubernatorial and Presidential Coattails in Brazil." Unpublished replication, New York University. <a href= "http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Emrg217/samuels.pdf" target= "_new">article available here</a>

Bibliographic Citation:

Thomas Brambor, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder. 2004. "Gubernatorial and Presidential Coattails in Brazil." Unpublished replication, New York University. <a href= "http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Emrg217/samuels.pdf" target= "_new">article available here</a>

Citation

Title:

Thomas Brambor, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder. 2004. "Gubernatorial and Presidential Coattails in Brazil." Unpublished replication, New York University. <a href= "http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Emrg217/samuels.pdf" target= "_new">article available here</a>

Bibliographic Citation:

Thomas Brambor, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder. 2004. "Gubernatorial and Presidential Coattails in Brazil." Unpublished replication, New York University. <a href= "http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Emrg217/samuels.pdf" target= "_new">article available here</a>

Citation

Title:

This is a reanalysis of David Samuels. 2000. "The Gubernatorial Coattails Effect: Federalism and Congressional Elections in Brazil." Journal of Politics 62: 240-253. <a href= "http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3816%28200002%2962%3A1%3C240%3ATGCEFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z" target= "_new">article available here</a>

Bibliographic Citation:

This is a reanalysis of David Samuels. 2000. "The Gubernatorial Coattails Effect: Federalism and Congressional Elections in Brazil." Journal of Politics 62: 240-253. <a href= "http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3816%28200002%2962%3A1%3C240%3ATGCEFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z" target= "_new">article available here</a>

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Samuels.do

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Stata code to replicate this study

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Samuels.pdf

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Original article for this study

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Data file in original stata file format

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