Replication Data for: The rise and fall of party leaders: exploring leadership selection, re-selection, and de-selection using qualitative comparative analysis (doi:10.7910/DVN/QB3V0K)

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Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: The rise and fall of party leaders: exploring leadership selection, re-selection, and de-selection using qualitative comparative analysis

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doi:10.7910/DVN/QB3V0K

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Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2021-03-12

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Bibliographic Citation:

Vicentini, Giulia; Pritoni, Andrea, 2021, "Replication Data for: The rise and fall of party leaders: exploring leadership selection, re-selection, and de-selection using qualitative comparative analysis", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QB3V0K, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:YBBqIYHtR9OjbYhsuOQXAg== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: The rise and fall of party leaders: exploring leadership selection, re-selection, and de-selection using qualitative comparative analysis

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/QB3V0K

Authoring Entity:

Vicentini, Giulia (University of Siena)

Pritoni, Andrea (University of Turin)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Vicentini, Giulia

Depositor:

Vicentini, Giulia

Date of Deposit:

2021-02-09

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, leadership departure, leadership selection, party congresses, party primaries, QCA, Western Europe

Abstract:

The main purpose of this article is to detect the reasons for party leaders’ persistence or departure from the office, starting from the moment they are selected or re-selected. More specifically, we try to assess which (if any) characteristics of the leadership race (LR) called to appoint (or re-appoint) the party leader, in combination with other conditions, could favour leadership re-selection in office at the end of the term, rather than a more or less forced early departure. To this end, we have investigated all the LRs promoted by both bigger and smaller parties in four Western European countries over the last three decades. Bridging the literature on leadership selection and leadership survival, we built a theoretical framework that allowed us to turn to an original methodological approach in the field – Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)– to unravel asymmetrical, equi-final and conjunctural causation by looking at the combinations of conditions leading to the outcome, namely re-selection or departure from the office.Specifically, we identified five main conditions which are likely to affect the outcome, both alone and in combination with each other: whether there is an outgoing leader running for re-election (incumbency); a broad inclusiveness of the LR called to appoint the party leader; large victory (namely low competitiveness for contested LR or high approval rates for coronation of a single candidate); participation in government during the leadership tenure; and party electoral support (‘big’ mainstream vs. ‘small’ niche/challenger parties).

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Citation

Identification Number:

10.1017/ipo.2021.6

Bibliographic Citation:

Vicentini Giulia, and Pritoni Andrea (2021) 'The rise and fall of party leaders: exploring leadership selection, re-selection, and de-selection using qualitative comparative analysis', Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica.

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File: IPSR_Vicentini-Pritoni_dataset (09.02.2021).tab

  • Number of cases: 172

  • No. of variables per record: 15

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

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Variable Description

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Variables

Case

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Variable Format: character

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Success

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Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:CCQyJwNCiY7rBRcrKAYhIw==

Votes%

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Summary Statistics: Min. 1.2; Valid 172.0; Mean 18.538953488372094; StDev 12.708943531310325; Max. 44.6;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:999irD5reafIUUyqRP2soA==

Incumbency

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Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; StDev 0.4965541536144678; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.569767441860465; Valid 172.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:4GukpfvGFX22TH+4CpbjkA==

Broadinclusiveness

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.2703488372093023; Valid 172.0; StDev 0.25999076760224826; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Largevictory

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Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Mean 0.6236627906976744; StDev 0.39165559851371606; Min. 0.0; Valid 172.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Presenceingovernment

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.32151162790697674; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.3950749945592475; Valid 172.0; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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Bigparty

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Summary Statistics: Max. 0.99; Valid 172.0; Min. 0.02; StDev 0.38424028377466446; Mean 0.4494186046511628

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:V9Tv/KhRHri9RpmaHqf0NQ==

Outcome

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Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.351097442093629; Valid 172.0; Mean 0.6976744186046512

Variable Format: numeric

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~outcome

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.3023255813953488; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.351097442093629; Valid 172.0; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:CCE85ozoypv4UPrRrTk+4Q==

Solutionterm1:Incumbency

f4375082 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.569767441860465; Valid 172.0; StDev 0.4965541536144678;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:4GukpfvGFX22TH+4CpbjkA==

Solutionterm2:~Government*~Bigparty

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Summary Statistics: Valid 172.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.4797093023255814; StDev 0.38079391876437785; Max. 0.98

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:8h89cCpDiKX2AQWOaeo0Rg==

Solutionterm3:Largevictory*~Government

f4375082 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 172.0; Mean 0.40348837209302324; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.37147805753829166; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:No9bmnh6kEDR8uJzK+ObJA==

Solutionterm4:Broadinclusiveness*~Bigparty

f4375082 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Mean 0.15906976744186047; StDev 0.1673818194028621; Valid 172.0; Max. 0.8;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:4nQJNowQfEamcRSiWOn1nQ==

Finalsolution:Incumbency+~Government*~Bigparty+Largevictory*~Government+Broadinclusiveness*~Bigparty

f4375082 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.2968293565984751; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.8316860465116279; Max. 1.0; Valid 172.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:+KO6/yhDL1iHiAX1CYfWvQ==

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