Replication Data: 2022 Brazilian Presidential Election and Democratic Attitudes

Fernando Barros de Mello published this dataset to support the study of political leadership and democratic support during the 2022 Brazilian presidential election. It contains the empirical records and analysis files necessary to replicate findings regarding voter behavior and institutional trust in the Brazilian context.

Use Cases

• Replicating statistical models of democratic backsliding using the study's original variables
• Analyzing the correlation between presidential candidate preference and attitudes toward democratic institutions
• Investigating voter sentiment in Brazil during the 2022 electoral cycle

Strengths

• Directly supports replication of peer-reviewed political science research
• Focuses on the high-stakes 2022 Brazilian presidential election

Limitations

• Lack of documentation regarding specific column names and row counts in the metadata
• Highly specific to the 2022 Brazilian political context

Provenance

Source

Fernando Barros de Mello, Harvard Dataverse

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last updated March 2026

Geography

Brazil