Replication data for a 2026 study examining electoral opportunism in economic policy among Swedish local governments. The dataset likely contains measures of electoral competitiveness, tax rates, budget balances, and public investment. It was authored by Axel Cronert and archived in the Political Science Research and Methods (PSRM) Dataverse.
Use Cases
- Modeling the effect of electoral competitiveness on tax policy based on the described measure of re-election probability.
- Analyzing policy moderation versus myopia in local government budgets based on variables for budget balance and public investment.
- Replicating the study's findings on Swedish local government economic decision-making using the provided replication data.
Strengths
- Data is linked to a peer-reviewed study published in Political Science Research and Methods (PSRM).
- The study's methodology exploits plausibly exogenous variation from national-level polls for its key competitiveness measure.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Political Science Research and Methods (PSRM) Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Data likely compiled from Swedish local government records and national poll data, as described in the associated study.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-19 21:27:20; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Sweden (local governments)