Replication data for: Crossing the Line: Local Ethnic Geography and Voting in Ghana (doi:10.7910/DVN/IQW9LQ)

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Replication data for: Crossing the Line: Local Ethnic Geography and Voting in Ghana

doi:10.7910/DVN/IQW9LQ

Harvard Dataverse

2013-05-15

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Ichino, Nahomi; Nathan, Noah L., 2013, "Replication data for: Crossing the Line: Local Ethnic Geography and Voting in Ghana", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IQW9LQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Replication data for: Crossing the Line: Local Ethnic Geography and Voting in Ghana

doi:10.7910/DVN/IQW9LQ

Ichino, Nahomi (Harvard University)

Nathan, Noah L. (Harvard University)

2013

Harvard Dataverse

Harvard Dataverse

University of Michigan

2013-05-15

2013

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IQW9LQ

Social Sciences

Replication data for: Crossing the Line: Local Ethnic Geography and Voting in Ghana. Following is the article abstract. <br /><br />Theories of instrumental ethnic voting in new democracies propose that voters support co-ethnic politicians because they expect politicians to favor their co-ethnics once in office. But many goods that politicians deliver to voters are locally nonexcludable in rural areas, so the local presence of an ethnic group associated with a politician should affect a rural voter's assessment of how likely she is to benefit from that politician's election. Using geocoded polling-station–level election results alongside survey data from Ghana, we show that otherwise similar voters are less likely to vote for the party of their own ethnic group, and more likely to support a party associated with another group, when the local ethnic geography favors the other group. This result helps account for the imperfect correlation between ethnicity and vote choice in African democracies. More generally, this demonstrates how local community and geographic contexts can modify the information conveyed by ethnicity and influence voter behavior.

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Ichino, N., & Nathan, N. (2013). Crossing the Line: Local Ethnic Geography and Voting in Ghana. American Political Science Review 107(2): 344–361.

10.1017/S0003055412000664

Ichino, N., & Nathan, N. (2013). Crossing the Line: Local Ethnic Geography and Voting in Ghana. American Political Science Review 107(2): 344–361.

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Codebook for polling station level data

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Part 1 of 3: Replication code for analysis of Brong Ahafo polling station results, for article (Tables 1 and 2) and supplementary information (Tables 1-3, Figures 1, 3-6)

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Polling station level data

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Part 2 of 3: Replication code for analysis of survey data, for article (Tables 3-5) and supplementary information (Tables 4-13)

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Part 3 of 3: Code to produce Figures 4 and 5 of article

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