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Replication Data for: Who Should Politicians Represent? How Winning an Election Influences Citizens' Views on Representation |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/ZD5M98 |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Date of Distribution: |
2025-03-07 |
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Allinger, Tim Lars, 2025, "Replication Data for: Who Should Politicians Represent? How Winning an Election Influences Citizens' Views on Representation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZD5M98, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:QX4UFT+hKtpJNVHXg4O43A== [fileUNF] |
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Citation |
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Title: |
Replication Data for: Who Should Politicians Represent? How Winning an Election Influences Citizens' Views on Representation |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/ZD5M98 |
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Authoring Entity: |
Allinger, Tim Lars (Aarhus University) |
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Distributor: |
Harvard Dataverse |
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Access Authority: |
Allinger, Tim Lars |
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Depositor: |
Allinger, Tim Lars |
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Date of Deposit: |
2025-01-30 |
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Holdings Information: |
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZD5M98 |
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Social Sciences, political representation, partisan surrogation, citizen perspective, winner-loser gap, regression discontinuity design (RDD) |
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Abstract: |
Should elected politicians represent their own voters or all citizens, regardless of who they voted for? Though a fundamental question in representative democracies, we lack insights into citizens' perspectives on this tension despite their essential role in democratic stability and legitimacy. I argue that while there is generally strong support for the idea that an elected politician should represent all citizens in their constituency (partisan surrogation), this support diminishes markedly due to self-interested considerations once citizens find themselves on the winning side of an election. Relying on a regression discontinuity design in close district races across three German national elections, I present quasi-experimental evidence in line with this argument. The findings indicate that many citizens expect partisan surrogation when losing without being willing to concede that to others upon an election victory. This highlights the need for a more dynamic perspective when studying citizens' expectations of the representative system. |
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File Description--f10851818 |
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File: districts_results.tab |
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UNF:6:QX4UFT+hKtpJNVHXg4O43A== |
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Summary Statistics: Valid 5382.0; Max. 2021.0; Min. 2013.0; Mean 2017.0; StDev 3.2662897835325775 Variable Format: numeric Notes: UNF:6:YxCUsLTtskIGkhjfePAPiw== |
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Summary Statistics: Valid 5382.0; Max. 299.0; StDev 86.32140233465924; Mean 150.0; Min. 1.0 Variable Format: numeric Notes: UNF:6:pftnYsKEaTDQZa8+vAvTsw== |
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Summary Statistics: Min. 1.0; StDev 118.31392250885494; Valid 5382.0; Mean 57.5; Max. 322.0; Variable Format: numeric Notes: UNF:6:bLCaFv2I6o0cydLU+7sJ1w== |
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Variable Format: character Notes: UNF:6:wUztUDgKg9Ob9mRTcIawCg== |
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f10851818 Location: |
Summary Statistics: Valid 5382.0; Max. 66.303256253569; StDev 13.914690397855264; Min. 0.0; Mean 15.789474930882779; Variable Format: numeric Notes: UNF:6:R5K+y2N6zT8Xisdfh3XLhA== |
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Summary Statistics: Mean 8.775919732441665; Max. 322.0; Valid 5382.0; Min. 1.0; StDev 46.10733773946096; Variable Format: numeric Notes: UNF:6:qt012vhqR69q3tsmzXbuUQ== |
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Variable Format: character Notes: UNF:6:uOXPkWRaj6uBgAD+4d6ujQ== |
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f10851818 Location: |
Summary Statistics: Max. 66.303256253569; StDev 8.419294474454524; Valid 5382.0; Mean 39.61842971262286; Min. 18.648274; Variable Format: numeric Notes: UNF:6:uvNItO6xZNG7NWpeYEWblw== |
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Summary Statistics: Valid 5382.0; Mean 20.470457079153253; Min. 1.0; Max. 322.0; StDev 71.72268551110697; Variable Format: numeric Notes: UNF:6:s7YLi3dRRLQVIs7daTYh4A== |
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Variable Format: character Notes: UNF:6:FISC199RCEMz8LKC9EjFvw== |
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f10851818 Location: |
Summary Statistics: StDev 6.134140144669824; Valid 5382.0; Mean 26.019416527110717; Max. 42.0647755583723; Min. 11.372034 Variable Format: numeric Notes: UNF:6:9gtrlxvjBSTQlsjB0bh2gg== |
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Summary Statistics: Min. 5.0; StDev 0.38928491354905287; Valid 5382.0; Mean 5.813823857302123; Max. 6.0; Variable Format: numeric Notes: UNF:6:RahTe2VaXmjkLy/uKe8uuQ== |
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Summary Statistics: StDev 20.38479725882958; Min. -64.4575426804854; Max. 51.4103246407664; Valid 5382.0; Mean -21.562452584154737 Variable Format: numeric Notes: UNF:6:G2DDmjI3TArEY3Xj+DsOgA== |
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codebook.pdf |
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application/pdf |
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readme.txt |
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replication.Rproj |
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analysis.R |
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preprocessing.R |
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type/x-r-syntax |
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results_2013.csv |
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text/comma-separated-values |
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results_2017.csv |
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text/csv |
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results_2021.csv |
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text/csv |
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Geometrie_Wahlkreise_18DBT.zip |
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Geometrie_Wahlkreise_19DBT.CPG |
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Geometrie_Wahlkreise_19DBT.zip |
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Geometrie_Wahlkreise_20DBT.zip |
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