Replication Data for: The party politics of diplomatic engagements: Evidence from Italy (doi:10.7910/DVN/X8FUK8)

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Title:

Replication Data for: The party politics of diplomatic engagements: Evidence from Italy

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/X8FUK8

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Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2025-01-27

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1

Bibliographic Citation:

Corda, Tiziana; Casiraghi, Matteo, 2025, "Replication Data for: The party politics of diplomatic engagements: Evidence from Italy", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/X8FUK8, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:KkSxyyabHKj9xVQAdbIL0g== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: The party politics of diplomatic engagements: Evidence from Italy

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/X8FUK8

Authoring Entity:

Corda, Tiziana (University of Milan)

Casiraghi, Matteo (University of Groningen)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Corda, Tiziana

Depositor:

Corda, Tiziana

Date of Deposit:

2024-12-19

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/X8FUK8

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, autocracy, democracy, diplomatic visits, Italy, political ideology, foreign policy, party politics

Abstract:

Leaders decide to engage diplomatically with their foreign peers for various reasons but, given their limited time and resources, they have to choose which peers to prioritize. As such, the study of international diplomatic visits helps shed light on a government’s foreign policy approach and better understand its priorities in how it conceives and builds foreign relations. While the literature on diplomatic engagements has largely debated its drivers and effects, the role of domestic influences, in particular of party politics, has remained understudied. We address this gap and investigate the party politics of diplomatic engagements leveraging a new dataset on Italy’s high-level international bilateral diplomatic visits in 2000-2023. Our findings show that partisan differences influence not only the overall frequency of such engagements, following curvilinear left-right patterns, but also the political regimes that left- and right-wing governments prioritize in such endeavours, exposing the lower importance right-wing parties assign to democratic principles when managing their countries’ foreign relations, as these governments are systematically more likely to interact with authoritarian regimes than with democracies.

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Citation

Title:

Corda T, Casiraghi MCM (2025). The party politics of diplomatic engagements: evidence from Italy. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2024.30

Identification Number:

10.1017/ipo.2024.30

Bibliographic Citation:

Corda T, Casiraghi MCM (2025). The party politics of diplomatic engagements: evidence from Italy. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2024.30

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  • No. of variables per record: 22

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Variables

GovtCOW

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 12.0; Max. 13990.0; Valid 2418.0; StDev 4112.52649399815; Mean 6827.485525227438

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:4NJOcaz5nmG+i+AwvO6gag==

Government

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 2418.0; Max. 13.0; Min. 1.0; StDev 3.7264490852343433; Mean 7.032258064516149

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Z+8QjWlpAVJrsl5YzeaZJQ==

COW

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Summary Statistics: Min. 2.0; Mean 476.0339123242365; Max. 990.0; StDev 260.2064417197409; Valid 2418.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:j4SygS0YridSn9qxRr9UKA==

Count_VisitPMOut

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 7.0; Mean 0.14929693961952084; StDev 0.4995255526395996; Min. 0.0; Valid 2418.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:6NGbZ1BB8GqZV/Q9LyYQzQ==

Count_VisitPMInc

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Mean 0.27502067824648435; Valid 2418.0; Max. 7.0; StDev 0.7260480273997242

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:OWmWbyaVHBUI9l9slVCx7g==

Count_VisitPMOut / Duration * 100 (days)

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 2418.0; Max. 0.7561436891555786; StDev 0.0800379419810259; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.02442051318987925

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:HN1e+4NAqZlOdrrMojAY+Q==

Count_VisitPMInc / Duration * 100 (days)

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.03947267236112551; StDev 0.10532936941961486; Valid 2418.0; Max. 1.3333333730697632; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:w7DS97qwz7qzs4LhUVcx2A==

Count_VisitPMFMOut

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 10.0; Valid 2418.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.2506203473945406; StDev 0.8227536007695091;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:+NvNoteuQnKHpKtqCtGfLw==

Count_VisitPMFMInc

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.082518232969123; Valid 2418.0; Mean 0.3883374689826326; Min. 0.0; Max. 15.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:CsSg+EgIPDIah1xjpDv+nQ==

Count_VisitPMFMInc / Duration * 100 (days)

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 2418.0; StDev 0.15513320248462675; Mean 0.055437872708583365; Max. 3.253796100616455; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ZuqpRfa2W9DQ8QsdPZFjNA==

Count_VisitPMFMOut / Duration * 100 (days)

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.03884624250116105; StDev 0.12010961348352416; Min. 0.0; Valid 2418.0; Max. 1.1494252681732178

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:3mkjYXvkGNSNzwXL8vaqww==

CHES GAL-TAN scale

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 4.9359965719940035; StDev 2.1084675409958455; Min. 2.5520178041543033; Max. 8.86241942957827; Valid 2418.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:8eGEt/DImjHqStpE1A3Zcg==

CHES L-R scale

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 2.665430267; Mean 5.38545824682203; Max. 8.191516666666667; StDev 1.687484737113173; Valid 2418.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:2zmKLUaoTKRzmIL8vKQ93Q==

SamplePMBoth

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Summary Statistics: Valid 2418.0; StDev 0.4712087171440223; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.6674937965260545

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:t53Q4CnB5Po8IIojXk5XFw==

TotalExposureDays

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1412.0; Valid 2418.0; StDev 340.38335035227476; Min. 300.0; Mean 666.6749379652601

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:IzTPM2Udduoh7DgBPKs+Gg==

Alternative 2, ROW-based democracy variable

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 2198.0; Mean 0.5395814376706085; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.4985442690689705; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:jOPYpZcy79MQUJpppGH/4Q==

Alternative 1, soft democracy variable

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.5150136487716094; Valid 2198.0; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.4998882668013247

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ppqoA6y9Ok9y3sRyLS/TYQ==

Main democracy variable

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; StDev 0.49167822149920754; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.40855323020928147; Valid 2198.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:NWjCzK7SiLU+9lOWuYVUZw==

World share of democracies

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 0.3888888888888889; StDev 0.044490144134054395; Mean 0.3217346939070413; Min. 0.24528301886792453; Valid 2418.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ugxvuRaKKlax6GusdrRgLA==

World average GDP growth

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Summary Statistics: Valid 2418.0; StDev 1.2027738005186468; Max. 4.552067271034846; Mean 3.1050172058843297; Min. -0.23883770547483207

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:LXrh0gO9vAETECuJgkv4Lw==

Italian military exports

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.00420192308433178; Max. 0.6495000123977661; Valid 2418.0; StDev 0.025795372135609437; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:s5ZEHHzy/TwYd6rgbx8htA==

Italian migrant communities abroad

f10790468 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 0.27748700976371765; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.02979179593687788; Valid 2418.0; Mean 0.007087386024742408;

Variable Format: numeric

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