Replication data for: Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage (doi:10.7910/DVN/NKCJK6)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/NKCJK6

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2007-11-28

Version:

4

Bibliographic Citation:

King, Gary, 2007, "Replication data for: Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NKCJK6, Harvard Dataverse, V4, UNF:3:IE4ZSAs8ZzUK+fRXNbVvGw== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/NKCJK6

Authoring Entity:

King, Gary (Harvard University)

Date of Production:

1991

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Deposit:

2006

Date of Distribution:

1991

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NKCJK6

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences

Abstract:

This Note addresses the long-standing discrepancy between scholarly support for the effect of constituency service on incumbency advantage and a large body of contradictory empirical evidence. I show first that many of the methodological problems noticed in past research reduce to a single methodological problem that is readily resolved. The core of this Note then provides among the first systematic empirical evidence for the constituency service hypothesis. <br /> <br /> Specifically, an extra $10,000 added to the budget of the average state legislator gives this incumbent an additional 1.54 percentage points in the next election (with a 95% confidence interval of 1.14 to 1.94 percentage points). <br /> <br /> See also: <a href= "http://gking.harvard.edu/category/research-interests/applications/incumbency-advantage" target="_blank">Incumbency Advantage</a>.

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Access

Notes:

This dataset is made available without information on how it can be used. You should communicate with the Contact(s) specified before use.

Other Study Description Materials

Related Publications

Citation

Title:

King, Gary, 1991, "Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage," British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 21, No. 1, Pp. 119-128: <a href= "http://j.mp/inptv4" target="_blank">Link to article</a>

Bibliographic Citation:

King, Gary, 1991, "Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage," British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 21, No. 1, Pp. 119-128: <a href= "http://j.mp/inptv4" target="_blank">Link to article</a>

File Description--f103982

File: constituencyservice.tab

  • Number of cases: 88

  • No. of variables per record: 16

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

Notes:

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Final regressions in Constituency Service article

Variable Description

List of Variables:
  • INCAD - incumbency advantage
  • BUD - budget figures
  • SAL - salary
  • CO - state level dummy variables
  • CT - state level dummy variables
  • DE - state level dummy variables
  • IA - state level dummy variables
  • MI - state level dummy variables
  • MO - state level dummy variables
  • NY - state level dummy variables
  • OH - state level dummy variables
  • PA - state level dummy variables
  • RI - state level dummy variables
  • UT - state level dummy variables
  • WI - state level dummy variables
  • WEIGHT - standard error of INCAD for each observation

Variables

incumbency advantage

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budget figures

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salary

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Variable Format: numeric

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state level dummy variables

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state level dummy variables

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state level dummy variables

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state level dummy variables

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state level dummy variables

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state level dummy variables

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state level dummy variables

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state level dummy variables

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state level dummy variables

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state level dummy variables

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state level dummy variables

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Variable Format: numeric

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state level dummy variables

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Variable Format: numeric

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standard error of INCAD for each observation

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:5OBFx1LigI7pX1wkP6JpLQ==

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

constituencyservice

Text:

Contains program and data to reproduce final regressions in Constituency Service article, ASCII format

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Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

ConstituencyServiceArticle.pdf

Text:

Article related to this study: Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage

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