Replication Data for: Climbing up, letting down, or putting the ladder away? Regional ministers’ movements in multilevel systems (doi:10.7910/DVN/YBFUBN)

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Title:

Replication Data for: Climbing up, letting down, or putting the ladder away? Regional ministers’ movements in multilevel systems

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doi:10.7910/DVN/YBFUBN

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Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2024-12-05

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Bibliographic Citation:

Boldrini, Matteo; Grimaldi, Selena, 2024, "Replication Data for: Climbing up, letting down, or putting the ladder away? Regional ministers’ movements in multilevel systems", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YBFUBN, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:sm7flZ2NwVkJgrubBj6cwA== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: Climbing up, letting down, or putting the ladder away? Regional ministers’ movements in multilevel systems

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/YBFUBN

Authoring Entity:

Boldrini, Matteo (Luiss Guido Carli)

Grimaldi, Selena (Universty of Macerata)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Boldrini, Matteo

Depositor:

Boldrini, Matteo

Date of Deposit:

2024-12-03

Holdings Information:

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

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, exit from politics, local career, multilevel systems, national career, regional executive

Abstract:

Regional cabinet members (RCMs) are key political actors in subnational politics, especially in federal systems or in countries that have undergone a process of regionalization or devolution, even though they are still less studied than federal or national ministers. Italy and its regionalization process represent an interesting case study to understand how and under what conditions members of regional cabinets can exit from politics or move upwards, or downwards the different tiers of government. By using an original dataset of 721 RCMs in ordinary statute regions we tested through multinomial regression analysis whether political and institutional or personal factors influence their movements (both legislative or executive) upward, that is, toward national and/or European positions, backward toward local (both provincial or municipal) positions or their exit from politics. Our results show that both political–institutional and individual factors matter. In particular, displaying a previous national career favors upward movements while being a technician or independent favors the exit from politics.

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Citation

Title:

Boldrini, M., & Grimaldi, S. (2024). Climbing up, letting down, or putting the ladder away? Regional ministers’ movements in multilevel systems. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana Di Scienza Politica, 1–14. doi:10.1017/ipo.2024.19

Identification Number:

10.1017/ipo.2024.19

Bibliographic Citation:

Boldrini, M., & Grimaldi, S. (2024). Climbing up, letting down, or putting the ladder away? Regional ministers’ movements in multilevel systems. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana Di Scienza Politica, 1–14. doi:10.1017/ipo.2024.19

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File: dataset.tab

  • Number of cases: 721

  • No. of variables per record: 17

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

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Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

id

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 1.0; Mean 361.0; StDev 208.2790595971344; Max. 721.0; Valid 721.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:l9sYs7wRA4eI4amtpK3GMA==

career_type

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 1.1442441054091539; Valid 721.0; Max. 3.0; StDev 0.8603928471581443; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:PvpvpRlSO0dOs3Ct6VOGnw==

Regional_president

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Valid 721.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.06380027739251043; StDev 0.24456647369473594

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:KRxdfOnE69gFT3ajRA0bJw==

gender

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.36510088916562783; Mean 0.15811373092926484; Min. 0.0; Valid 721.0; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:wXr2aYd+AD8HLXLBKaUCfg==

small_party

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Valid 721.0; StDev 0.47758349184014315; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.3509015256588077;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:7TjoEFviyiDz7IhW2BjMAA==

non_partisan

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 721.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.4828504450855442; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.3689320388349512;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:zlqwJhPIyVCMQK9TifDA+Q==

local_career

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 18825.0; Valid 721.0; Mean 2593.500693481278; StDev 3028.1515122104256; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:K0YCv9pjUMGV7TiNgwtEYw==

regional_career_standardized

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 721.0; Max. 11508.0; StDev 1849.002653863139; Min. 0.0; Mean 1858.2954230235794;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:CDnpDKYcpWZK0Fn1q3v+1A==

national_career_standardized

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 11329.0; Mean 245.17614424410527; Min. 0.0; Valid 721.0; StDev 1027.016666957204;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:F53uCSQflcFgIOyjJBaV5Q==

local_career_standardized

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 4.93938090363579; Valid 721.0; Mean -0.093365115717653; StDev 0.9389100280437794; Min. -0.897507114236933;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:QwEgknqnpedcv35hZW3iYw==

regional_career_standardized

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. -0.9705325520066; Valid 721.0; StDev 1.0236111720159733; Mean 0.05822311361608613; Max. 5.40031680450912;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:PoW+LTQh3wNUc6Mqk/ZIIQ==

national_career_standardized

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.9494094295452111; Min. -0.253905867015513; Max. 10.2190102728798; Valid 721.0; Mean -0.027256630704152244;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:TtE+x3scoBCVewyd8SfdxA==

National_career_norm

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 721.0; StDev 0.09065377941188162; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.02164146387537339

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:8z6Fs7VUPfSH778diLsyLw==

early_term_interruption

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.3897364771151178; StDev 0.48802898640382913; Valid 721.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Yba/kAFDNaRWCsomhwiMRw==

stronghold

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 1.0; Mean 1.5353675450762823; Max. 3.0; StDev 0.8091045527142984; Valid 721.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:8VFP1x9v0eGDKFb9EY+dSg==

age_cohort

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 721.0; Mean 2.563106796116505; Min. 1.0; Max. 4.0; StDev 0.8558448074342029;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:MARSaX4c2jmDG6uNBfFM9g==

region

f10747915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 721.0; Max. 15.0; StDev 4.126203901614006; Min. 1.0; Mean 7.550624133148407

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:fLVhiLXniFJq7MVOuR14IQ==

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