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Title: |
Replication Data for: The Electoral Consequences of Mass Religious Events: India's Kumbh Mela |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/J8BBJB |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Date of Distribution: |
2025-02-26 |
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Weaver, Michael; Nellis, Gareth; Baral, Siddhartha, 2025, "Replication Data for: The Electoral Consequences of Mass Religious Events: India's Kumbh Mela", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/J8BBJB, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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Title: |
Replication Data for: The Electoral Consequences of Mass Religious Events: India's Kumbh Mela |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/J8BBJB |
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Authoring Entity: |
Weaver, Michael (University of British Columbia) |
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Nellis, Gareth (University of California San Diego) |
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Baral, Siddhartha (University of California San Diego) |
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Weaver, Michael |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Nellis, Gareth |
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Weaver, Michael |
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Depositor: |
Weaver, Michael |
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Date of Deposit: |
2024-05-22 |
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/J8BBJB |
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Social Sciences, religion, elections, parties, festivals |
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Abstract: |
Mass ritualized gatherings like pilgrimages are central to religious practice globally. Do they generate votes for religious parties? The events may heighten religiosity, enlarging support for parties seen as owning religious policy issues. Such parties might also co-opt the events to organize and campaign. We evaluate the electoral impact of India's Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival considered the world's biggest human assembly, leveraging its astrologically determined timing combined with districts' proximity by rail to the festival sites. The Kumbh Mela boosts Hindu nationalists' vote share. Mechanisms tests suggest it does so by increasing religious orthodoxy---seen in the adoption of Brahminical dietary practices---and by strengthening party capacity. There are mixed effects on communal conflict. The events are electorally polarizing; they cause India's main secular-leaning party to perform better in regions with denser concentrations of religious minorities. Our study offers a new account of how confessional parties make inroads in multiethnic democracies. |
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This dataset underwent an independent verification process, complying with the AJPS Verification Policy updated June 2023, which replicated the tables and figures in the primary article. For the supplementary materials, verification was performed solely for the successful execution of the code. The verification process was carried out by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences at Cornell University. <br></br> The associated article has been awarded the Open Materials Badge. Learn more about the Open Practice Badges from the <a href="https://www.cos.io/">Center for Open Science</a>. <br></br> <img src="https://socialsciences.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2024-04/materials_large_color.png" alt="Open Materials Badge " width="60" height="60"> <br></br> Open Materials Badge |
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See Readme.txt and Section B of the Supplementary Online Appendix |
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The <i>American Journal of Political Science</i> and the Cornell Center for Social Sciences are not responsible for the accuracy or quality of data uploaded within the <i>AJPS</i> Dataverse, for the use of those data, or for interpretations or conclusions based on their use. |
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