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Middle East Mass Movements Database Dec 10, 2019 Kosack, Stephen; Smith, Evann, 2019, "Middle East Mass Movements Database", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VKECUK, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:k3HuojPnVd4bNNQE4XgvDA== [fileUNF] The Middle East Mass Movements Database, a part of the larger Mass Movements Project, contains basic characteristics of all mass movements in the region for each year that they mobilize at least 1,000 participants in costly action for a least a month in pursuit of a common political goal. The data are the result of a lengthy coding process in which...
Replication Data for: "The Puzzle of Democratic Monopolies: Single Party Dominance and Decline in India" Dec 10, 2019 Dasgupta, Aditya, 2019, "Replication Data for: "The Puzzle of Democratic Monopolies: Single Party Dominance and Decline in India"", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XMHPSA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:8r6eWchTkiov/kQ1288xCg== [fileUNF] This page includes data for the main analyses for the three empirical chapters in my dissertation, "The Puzzle of Democratic Monopolies: Single Party Dominance and Decline in India" (2016). The data include i) district-level data on high-yielding variety crop adoption connected to constituency level election outcomes, 1957-1987, across major states...
Invisible Sky, Visible State: Environmental Governance and Political Support in China Dec 10, 2019 Ding, Iza, 2019, "Invisible Sky, Visible State: Environmental Governance and Political Support in China", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6VR1RV, Harvard Dataverse, V1 How do political authorities in China respond to mounting environmental problems? Moreover, on what basis do they succeed in securing public approval in the realm of environmental governance? In this study, I argue that local authorities perform "symbolic responsiveness" as a strategy to manage public opinion over environmental issues. Furthermore,...
Replication data for: Long Lines and Voter Purges: The Logistics of Running Elections in America Dec 10, 2019 Pettigrew, Stephen, 2019, "Replication data for: Long Lines and Voter Purges: The Logistics of Running Elections in America", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2DADXK, Harvard Dataverse, V1 Replication Data for my dissertation "Long Lines and Voter Purges: The Logistics of Running Elections in America." Upon publication, full replication files for each paper will be made available in separate dataverse archives.
Replication Data for: Good Governance in Poor Places: Explaining Inclusive Politics in Emerging Subnational Democracies Dec 10, 2019 Phillips, Jonathan, 2019, "Replication Data for: Good Governance in Poor Places: Explaining Inclusive Politics in Emerging Subnational Democracies", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/H5A72B, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:cLkleVFx/AxltS/Q64AleA== [fileUNF] The terms on which citizens of emerging democracies access public resources are often skewed by their economic vulnerability, making them dependent on clientelist relationships and suppressing their political autonomy. To what extent is this clientelist trap of selective exclusion an inevitable feature of democracy in poor places? This dissertation...
Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland Dec 10, 2019 Charnysh, Volha, 2019, "Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BPAFAA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:vgNKk3XEn/GAiJVe5deSrQ== [fileUNF] How does cultural diversity affect social organization? Do institutional differences between diverse and homogeneous communities have implications for economic development? I argue that heterogeneity not only weakens informal enforcement mechanisms that rely on shared norms and networks, but also creates demand for formal (public-order) institution...
Replication Data for: Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Gender Gap in Political Participation Dec 10, 2019 Prillaman, Soledad, 2019, "Replication Data for: Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Gender Gap in Political Participation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GAAXTQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1 Data to replicate core findings in Chapters 3-6 from the dissertation. This data is only intended for replication of the dissertation, which will later be converted into a book and articles.
Aid, Violence, and Intervention: Three Essays on the Transnational Implications of Refugee Policy Dec 10, 2019 Camarena, Kara Ross, 2019, "Aid, Violence, and Intervention: Three Essays on the Transnational Implications of Refugee Policy", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RJCHMO, Harvard Dataverse, V1 This collection of papers develops theory and empirical evidence to respond to three pressing questions on the implications of refugee policy. The first paper explains how large population flows can cause violence in their destination. I present evidence that large, unexpected migrant influxes into countries with ongoing civil wars cause violence t...
Replication Data for: Group Power and Policy Change in Education Dec 10, 2019 Finger, Leslie, 2019, "Replication Data for: Group Power and Policy Change in Education", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WQ90WX, Harvard Dataverse, V1 Interest group scholars have struggled to document whether and how interest groups impact policy outcomes. At the same time, large, powerful vested interests like teachers’ unions have been accused of getting in the way of policy change, despite a lack of consistent evidence. This dissertation uses the case of education reform to disentangle the ro...
Replication Data for: A Theory of Protest Escalation Dec 10, 2019 Roman, Andrei, 2019, "Replication Data for: A Theory of Protest Escalation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HLSCDG, Harvard Dataverse, V1 I use a Facebook survey experiment to test the impact of political polarization and depolarization on respondents’ willingness to engage in social protest in Brazil and Turkey. In Brazil, the vast majority of willing protesters are non-partisan such that the depolarization treatment increases the total pool of protesters while the polarization trea...

Middle East Mass Movements Database

Dec 10, 2019

Kosack, Stephen; Smith, Evann, 2019, "Middle East Mass Movements Database", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VKECUK, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:k3HuojPnVd4bNNQE4XgvDA== [fileUNF]

The Middle East Mass Movements Database, a part of the larger Mass Movements Project, contains basic characteristics of all mass movements in the region for each year that they mobilize at least 1,000 participants in costly action for a least a month in pursuit of a common political goal. The data are the result of a lengthy coding process in which...

Replication Data for: "The Puzzle of Democratic Monopolies: Single Party Dominance and Decline in India"

Dec 10, 2019

Dasgupta, Aditya, 2019, "Replication Data for: "The Puzzle of Democratic Monopolies: Single Party Dominance and Decline in India"", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XMHPSA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:8r6eWchTkiov/kQ1288xCg== [fileUNF]

This page includes data for the main analyses for the three empirical chapters in my dissertation, "The Puzzle of Democratic Monopolies: Single Party Dominance and Decline in India" (2016). The data include i) district-level data on high-yielding variety crop adoption connected to constituency level election outcomes, 1957-1987, across major states...

Invisible Sky, Visible State: Environmental Governance and Political Support in China

Dec 10, 2019

Ding, Iza, 2019, "Invisible Sky, Visible State: Environmental Governance and Political Support in China", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6VR1RV, Harvard Dataverse, V1

How do political authorities in China respond to mounting environmental problems? Moreover, on what basis do they succeed in securing public approval in the realm of environmental governance? In this study, I argue that local authorities perform "symbolic responsiveness" as a strategy to manage public opinion over environmental issues. Furthermore,...

Replication data for: Long Lines and Voter Purges: The Logistics of Running Elections in America

Dec 10, 2019

Pettigrew, Stephen, 2019, "Replication data for: Long Lines and Voter Purges: The Logistics of Running Elections in America", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2DADXK, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Replication Data for my dissertation "Long Lines and Voter Purges: The Logistics of Running Elections in America." Upon publication, full replication files for each paper will be made available in separate dataverse archives.

Replication Data for: Good Governance in Poor Places: Explaining Inclusive Politics in Emerging Subnational Democracies

Dec 10, 2019

Phillips, Jonathan, 2019, "Replication Data for: Good Governance in Poor Places: Explaining Inclusive Politics in Emerging Subnational Democracies", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/H5A72B, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:cLkleVFx/AxltS/Q64AleA== [fileUNF]

The terms on which citizens of emerging democracies access public resources are often skewed by their economic vulnerability, making them dependent on clientelist relationships and suppressing their political autonomy. To what extent is this clientelist trap of selective exclusion an inevitable feature of democracy in poor places? This dissertation...

Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland

Dec 10, 2019

Charnysh, Volha, 2019, "Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BPAFAA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:vgNKk3XEn/GAiJVe5deSrQ== [fileUNF]

How does cultural diversity affect social organization? Do institutional differences between diverse and homogeneous communities have implications for economic development? I argue that heterogeneity not only weakens informal enforcement mechanisms that rely on shared norms and networks, but also creates demand for formal (public-order) institution...

Replication Data for: Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Gender Gap in Political Participation

Dec 10, 2019

Prillaman, Soledad, 2019, "Replication Data for: Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Gender Gap in Political Participation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GAAXTQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Data to replicate core findings in Chapters 3-6 from the dissertation. This data is only intended for replication of the dissertation, which will later be converted into a book and articles.

Aid, Violence, and Intervention: Three Essays on the Transnational Implications of Refugee Policy

Dec 10, 2019

Camarena, Kara Ross, 2019, "Aid, Violence, and Intervention: Three Essays on the Transnational Implications of Refugee Policy", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RJCHMO, Harvard Dataverse, V1

This collection of papers develops theory and empirical evidence to respond to three pressing questions on the implications of refugee policy. The first paper explains how large population flows can cause violence in their destination. I present evidence that large, unexpected migrant influxes into countries with ongoing civil wars cause violence t...

Replication Data for: Group Power and Policy Change in Education

Dec 10, 2019

Finger, Leslie, 2019, "Replication Data for: Group Power and Policy Change in Education", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WQ90WX, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Interest group scholars have struggled to document whether and how interest groups impact policy outcomes. At the same time, large, powerful vested interests like teachers’ unions have been accused of getting in the way of policy change, despite a lack of consistent evidence. This dissertation uses the case of education reform to disentangle the ro...

Replication Data for: A Theory of Protest Escalation

Dec 10, 2019

Roman, Andrei, 2019, "Replication Data for: A Theory of Protest Escalation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HLSCDG, Harvard Dataverse, V1

I use a Facebook survey experiment to test the impact of political polarization and depolarization on respondents’ willingness to engage in social protest in Brazil and Turkey. In Brazil, the vast majority of willing protesters are non-partisan such that the depolarization treatment increases the total pool of protesters while the polarization trea...

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