Replication data for: Electoral System Choice (doi:10.7910/DVN/JYL2FZ)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Electoral System Choice

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/JYL2FZ

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2007-11-28

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Thomas Brambor; William Roberts Clark; Matt Golder, 2007, "Replication data for: Electoral System Choice", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JYL2FZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:rXN03fdNulZZpNdxvEztsw== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Electoral System Choice

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/JYL2FZ

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/JYL2FZ

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 Carles Boix’s article ‘Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies’ which appeared in the British Journal of Political Science in 1999. In our article, we said that: <br /><br /> ‘In an award-winning article in the American Political Science Review, Boix (1999) examines the factors that determine electoral system choice in advanced democracies. He makes two main conclusions. First, ethnic or religious fragmentation encourages the adoption of proportional representation in small and medium-sized countries (621). He draws this conclusion based on a model that includes an interaction term between ethnoreligious fragmentation and country size. However, he doe s not include either of the constitutive terms. When these terms are included, there is no longer any evidence that ethno-religious fragmentation ever affects the adoption of proportional representation. The second conclusion is that countries are more likely to shift to proportional representation when the proportion of Socialist votes and the effective number of non-socialist parties are both large. This conclusion comes from a model in which there is an interaction term between the strength of socialist parties and the number of non-socialist parties but no constitutive terms. In this case, the coefficient on the interaction term from the primary model remains significant (albeit only at the 90% level now) once the constitutive terms are included, but its magnitude increases by 340%. Thus, the original analysis considerably underestimates the interactive effect of these two variables. Moreover, the failure to include constitutive terms means that the predicted electoral thresholds reported by Boix are off by up to 80%.’

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Sources Statement

Data Access

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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

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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. "Electoral System Choice." Unpublished replication, New York University. <a href= "http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Emrg217/boix.pdf" target= "_new">article available here</a>

Bibliographic Citation:

Thomas Brambor, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder. 2004. "Electoral System Choice." Unpublished replication, New York University. <a href= "http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Emrg217/boix.pdf" target= "_new">article available here</a>

Citation

Title:

Thomas Brambor, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder. 2004. "Electoral System Choice." Unpublished replication, New York University. <a href= "http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Emrg217/boix.pdf" target= "_new">article available here</a>

Bibliographic Citation:

Thomas Brambor, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder. 2004. "Electoral System Choice." Unpublished replication, New York University. <a href= "http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Emrg217/boix.pdf" target= "_new">article available here</a>

Citation

Title:

This is a reanalysis of Carles Boix. 1999. "Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies." American Political Science Review 93: 609-624. <a href= "http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28199909%2993%3A3%3C609%3ASTROTG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A" target= "_new">article available here</a>

Bibliographic Citation:

This is a reanalysis of Carles Boix. 1999. "Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies." American Political Science Review 93: 609-624. <a href= "http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28199909%2993%3A3%3C609%3ASTROTG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A" target= "_new">article available here</a>

File Description--f648846

File: boix.tab

  • Number of cases: 32

  • No. of variables per record: 10

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:3:rXN03fdNulZZpNdxvEztsw==

Data file

Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

country

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Variable Format: numeric

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interwar

f648846 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

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threshold

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:QtTJGnY5dN8cO4DcIZzc/g==

socialism

f648846 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

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parties

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:3Eio0fQbBZKalNLJJ3yXvA==

threat

f648846 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

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area

f648846 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:C0crFUYOxtifyudwk7QoXA==

trade

f648846 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:l2Iz3xLT7ETTnojRyMz4AA==

population

f648846 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:awqJkMrtjJxOzn4lt+FU8g==

ethnic

f648846 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:5B4xjxKc5DT782hAuV25Sg==

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

boix.do

Text:

Stata code to replicate this study

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text/x-stata-syntax; charset=US-ASCII

Other Study-Related Materials

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boix.pdf

Text:

Original article for this study

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application/pdf

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

boix_replication.zip

Text:

Data file in original stata file format

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application/zip