This dataset supports research on electoral accountability and voter behavior during economic hardship. It contains data used to analyze how perceptions of competence influence choices between incumbents, established opposition, and inexperienced challenger parties. The analysis focuses on the impact of economic underperformance duration and government tenure length on voter risk-taking.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between economic underperformance duration and voter support for challenger parties.
- Model the effect of government tenure length on perceived competence of dominant political parties.
- Investigate how voter perceptions of competence shape electoral choices between incumbents and opposition options.
Strengths
- Data is curated by a political science researcher and hosted in the World Politics Dataverse.
- The dataset is designed to test a specific theoretical argument linking economic conditions, government tenure, and voter choice.
Limitations
- The specific data structure, including column names, row count, and file formats, is not provided.
- The geographic and temporal coverage of the underlying data is unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- World Politics Dataverse
- Collection Method
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- Time Range
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- Freshness
- The dataset record was last updated on 2026-01-25.
- Geography
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