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Title: |
Does Corruption Information Inspire the Fight or Quash the Hope? A Field Experiment in Mexico on Voter Turnout, Choice, and Party Identification |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/KJABMA |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Date of Distribution: |
2020-02-24 |
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Bibliographic Citation: |
Chang, Alberto; De La O, Ana L.; Karlan, Dean; Wantchekon, Leonard, 2020, "Does Corruption Information Inspire the Fight or Quash the Hope? A Field Experiment in Mexico on Voter Turnout, Choice, and Party Identification", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KJABMA, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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Citation |
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Title: |
Does Corruption Information Inspire the Fight or Quash the Hope? A Field Experiment in Mexico on Voter Turnout, Choice, and Party Identification |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/KJABMA |
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Authoring Entity: |
Chang, Alberto (University of Ottowa) |
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De La O, Ana L. (Yale University) |
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Karlan, Dean (Northwestern University) |
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Wantchekon, Leonard (Princeton University) |
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Software used in Production: |
STATA |
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Distributor: |
Harvard Dataverse |
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Access Authority: |
Research Transparency, Data Ethics, and Governance |
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Depositor: |
Research Transparency, Data Ethics, and Governance, Innovations for Poverty Action |
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Date of Deposit: |
2020-02-10 |
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Holdings Information: |
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KJABMA |
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Study Scope |
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Keywords: |
Social Sciences, Incumbents, Political corruption, Government corruption, Voting, Voting precincts, Data corruption, Mayors, Political parties, Placebos, Political candidates |
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Abstract: |
Retrospective voting models assume that offering more information to voters about their incumbents’ performance strengthens electoral accountability. However, it is unclear whether incumbent corruption information translates into higher political participation and increased support for challengers. We provide experimental evidence that such information not only decreases incumbent party support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout and support for the challenger party, as well as erodes partisan attachments. While information clearly is necessary to improve accountability, corruption information is not sufficient because voters may respond to it by withdrawing from the political process. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our findings for studies of voting behavior. |
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Country: |
Mexico, Mexico, Mexico |
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Geographic Coverage: |
Jalisco, Morelos, Tabasco |
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Unit of Analysis: |
Precinct-level |
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Universe: |
Precincts with municipal elections. |
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Kind of Data: |
Precinct level data, demographic baseline characteristics data and survey data. |
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Methodology and Processing |
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Data Collector: |
Innovations for Poverty Action and two local firms with experience in leafleting. |
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Sampling Procedure: |
'In each state, we selected all municipalities audited by ASF the previous year. This criterion, which was necessary because our information campaign relied on the availability of audit reports, left us with 12 municipalities, including three state capitals and nine municipalities of varying levels of development. 9 Table 1 lists the 12 municipalities in our study. In each municipality, we assigned all voting precincts to one of our four treatment conditions. The total number of voting precincts in our study is 2,360. We used block randomization, stratified on municipality, to assign our treatments. |
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Mode of Data Collection: |
Audit reports, electoral results and in-person surveys. |
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Sources Statement |
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Data Access |
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Notes: |
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a> |
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Other Study Description Materials |
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Mexico Municipal Elections - Dataverse Files.zip |
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Text: |
This folder contains all the files necessary to replicate the results in the publication. |
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application/zip |