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Mar 21, 2012 - American Political Science Review Dataverse
Kate Baldwin; John D. Huber, 2012, "Replication data for: "Economic versus Cultural Differences: Forms of Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision."", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Z7RTOQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Arguments about how ethnic diversity affects governance typically posit that groups differ from each other in substantively important ways and that these differences make effective governance more difficult. But existing cross-national empirical tests typically use measures of ethnolinguistic fractionalization (ELF) that have no information about s... |
Nov 27, 2007 - American Political Science Review Dataverse
John Huber, 2007, "Replication data for: How does Cabinet Instability affect Political Performance: Credible Commitment, Information, and Health Care Cost Containment in Parliamentary Politics", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AOWHWQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:UydWBZARlhpU/3F1iI3WUw== [fileUNF]
This article explores the relationship between cabinet instability and political performance in parliamentary democracies. I develop two theoretical arguments about how cabinet instability should affect government effectiveness, and I use these to define several measures of instability. The first argument suggests that instability in the partisan c... |
Nov 27, 2007
John Huber; Ronald Inglehart, 2007, "Replication data for: Expert Interpretations of Party Space and Party Locations in 42 Societies", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EZNWPA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:60tBi34C/qqu0hMor5qIcA== [fileUNF]
The terms 'left' and 'right' are widely used to organize party competition and to shape connections between citizens and political parties. Recent and dramatic changes in the world, however, raise important questions about the meaning and importance of left-right ideology. Most notably, the collapse of communism has led to the development of a host... |
Nov 27, 2007
John Huber; Matthew Gabel, 2007, "Replication data for: Putting Parties in their Place: Inferring Party Left-Right Ideological Positions from Manifestos Data", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KKGSC2, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:lW6/pU5OoFqI7XwPw5wPzw== [fileUNF]
The left-right ideological positions of political parties play a central role in theorizing about many different aspects of democratic processes. Unfortunately, scholars are hindered in their ability to test existing theories by the limited availability of data that is comparable over time and across countries. This paper describes a simple 'vanill... |