A novel candidate-level dataset from Tanzania's initial single-party legislative elections examines the impact of elite-preferred candidates on local public goods provision. The study leverages deterministic assignment of ballot symbols to analyze electoral effects and policy implementation.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between candidate characteristics like national prominence and local ties on electoral outcomes.
- Assess the impact of ballot symbol assignment on the supply of local public goods data.
- Model the effect of elite-led candidate selection processes on policy implementation metrics.
Strengths
- Data is derived from a novel, candidate-level assembly for a specific historical political context.
- Research leverages a quasi-experimental design using deterministic ballot symbol assignment.
- Dataset is associated with a peer-reviewed publication in the American Political Science Review.
Limitations
- The dataset scope is limited to a single country and a specific post-independence election period.
- Sample size and specific variables like row and column counts are not provided in the input.
- Temporal coverage is historical, focusing on Tanzania's initial single-party elections.
Provenance
- Source
- American Political Science Review Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Assembled novel candidate-level data from Tanzania's legislative elections.
- Time Range
- Tanzania's initial single-party legislative elections post-independence.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Tanzania