Losers' Dissent: Replication Data on Populist Satisfaction with Democracy

Armin Schäfer published this social science replication dataset in 2026 via Harvard Dataverse to support the study 'Losers' Dissent: How Election Results Shape Populists’ Satisfaction with Democracy.' The data enables the reproduction of statistical findings regarding the relationship between electoral outcomes and democratic satisfaction among populist voters.

Use Cases

• Replicating regression models to assess the impact of election results on satisfaction scores
• Analyzing the correlation between populist ideology and dissent following electoral losses
• Testing the robustness of satisfaction metrics across different populist subgroups

Strengths

• Official replication package for peer-reviewed research
• Focuses on the specific intersection of populist ideology and electoral outcomes

Limitations

• Metadata for specific columns and variable definitions is not provided in the repository summary
• Restricted to the specific variables and timeframes selected for the original study

Provenance

Source

Armin Schäfer, Harvard Dataverse

Freshness

Last updated March 2026