Replication Scripts for Vetting for Virtue Study

Replication scripts for analyses in the APSR article 'Vetting for Virtue: Democracy's Challenge in Excluding Criminals from Office'. The analyses rely on legally restricted Norwegian administrative registers obtained from Statistics Norway under secure access agreements. The underlying data cannot be shared publicly.

Use Cases

• Replicate statistical analyses based on the described methodology
• Audit the computational workflow of the original study
• Adapt the analysis scripts for similar research on candidate vetting
• Study the use of administrative registers in political science research

Strengths

• Directly supports replication of a published APSR article
• Associated with legally restricted, high-quality Norwegian administrative registers

Limitations

• The replication package primarily consists of scripts, not the underlying data
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

Statistics Norway (SSB) administrative registers

Collection Method

Obtained under secure access agreements

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-24 14:25:26

Geography

Norway