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Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.7910/DVN/LUXWMV |
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Publication Date
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2024-11-08 |
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Title
| Replication Data for: Populism and the Rule of Law: The Importance of Institutional Legacies |
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Author
| Trivin, PedroUnivesità degli studi di MilanoORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2277-0279
Kyriacou, AndreasUniversitat de GironaORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9571-2833 |
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Point of Contact
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Trivin, Pedro (Univesità degli studi di Milano) |
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Description
| Existing work sees populist governments undermining the rule of law because they seek to dismantle institutional constraints on their personalistic plebiscitarian rule. We argue that populist rulers pose a greater threat to legal impartiality, equality, and compliance when they face a legacy of weak rule of law. We find empirical support for this assertion after applying synthetic control methods to a cross-country sample that includes up to 51 populist events spanning the period from 1920 to 2019. Our results remain consistent across a range of robustness checks including, the consideration of a set of contextual variables that can potentially determine the capacity of populist governments to sweep away institutional constraints, different populist event classifications, and different ways of measuring the rule of law. In countries, like the USA, with a robust rule of law tradition, the deleterious impact of populists on institutions will be limited but not negligible. |
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Subject
| Social Sciences |
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Keyword
| populism; rule of law; institutional legacies; synthetic control methods |
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Related Publication
| Populism and the Rule of Law: The Importance of Institutional Legacies doi |
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Notes
| This dataset underwent an independent verification process, complying with the AJPS Verification Policy updated June 2023, which replicated the tables and figures in the primary article. For the supplementary materials, verification was performed solely for the successful execution of the code. The verification process was carried out by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences at Cornell University.
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Producer
| Trivin, Pedro (Università degli studi di Milano) |
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Depositor
| Trivin, Pedro |
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Deposit Date
| 2024-09-06 |
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Data Source
| - Database: V-Dem complete dataset (Version 13). Accessible at https://www.v-dem.net/data/the-v-dem-dataset/country-year-v-dem-fullothers-v13/ (last accessed November 3, 2024). Full citation: Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Jan Teorell, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Agnes Cornell, M. Steven Fish, Lisa Gastaldi, Haakon Gjerløw, Adam Glynn, Sandra Grahn, Allen Hicken, Katrin Kinzelbach, Kyle L. Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, Anja Neundorf, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Oskar Rydén, Johannes von Römer, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, Aksel Sundström, Eitan Tzelgov, Luca Uberti, Yi-ting Wang, Tore Wig, and Daniel Ziblatt (2023). V-Dem codebook v13.
- Database: Replication files from Funke et al. (2023). Accessible at https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/184362/version/V1/view (last accessed November 3, 2024). Full citation: Funke, Manuel, Moritz Schularick, and Christoph Trebesch (2023). Populist leaders and the economy. American Economic Review, 113(12):3249–3288.
- Database: The Global Populism Database (Version V2). Accessible at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LFTQEZ (last accessed November 3, 2024). Full citation: Hawkins, Kirk A., Rosario Aguilar, Bruno Castanho Silva, Erin K. Jenne, Bojana Kocijan, and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2019). Measuring populist discourse: The global populism database. In EPSA Annual Conference in Belfast, UK, June, pages 20–22.
- Database: The Worldwide Governance Indicators complete dataset, 2023. Accessible at https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/worldwide-governance-indicators (last accessed November 3, 2024). Full citation: Kaufmann, Daniel, Aart Kraay, and Massimo Mastruzzi (2011). The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and analytical issues. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 3(2):220–246.
- Database: Chronology of Constitutional Events, Comparative Constitutions Project (Version 1.3). Accessible at https://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/download-data/ (last accessed November 3, 2024). Full citation: Elkins, Zachary, Tom Ginsburg, and James Melton (2020). Chronology of constitutional events, version 1.3. Comparative Constitutions Project.
- Database: Archigos (Version 4.1). Accesible at https://rochester.edu/college/faculty/hgoemans/data.htm (last accessed November 3, 2024). Full citation: Goemans, Henk E., Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, and Giacomo Chiozza (2009). Introducing Archigos: A Dataset of Political Leaders. Journal of Peace Research, 46 (2): 269-283. See the codebooks provided in the replication package for more details. |
