Replication Data for 'Does far-right legislative entry affect minority candidate diversity?' contains validated, population-level candidacy data from Swedish administrative registers. The dataset supports a regression discontinuity design analysis of how the Sweden Democrats' first-time entry into municipal councils affects the inclusion of immigrant and sexual minority candidates by mainstream parties. It was authored by Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte and last updated on April 8, -2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze causal effects of far-right party entry on candidate diversity using a regression discontinuity design.
- Compare recruitment responses of left-wing versus right-wing parties to far-right legitimization.
- Study the retention and recruitment patterns of immigrant candidates in municipal elections.
Strengths
- Uses validated, population-level candidacy data from official Swedish administrative registers.
- Applies a regression discontinuity design for causal inference on a specific political event.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Political Science Research and Methods (PSRM) Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Leveraged validated, population-level candidacy data from Swedish administrative registers.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04 -08 21:36:03; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Sweden (municipal level)