Beauty Premium in Politics: Swiss Politician Behavior and Voter Alignment

David Stadelmann's dataset supports the paper "The beauty premium in politics? Perceptions and political behavior". It includes data and code linking independent beauty ratings of Swiss politicians to their interest group affiliations and alignment with voter preferences. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-28 and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Replicate the study's analysis linking beauty ratings to political behavior based on the described methodology.
• Analyze the relationship between politician attractiveness and interest group affiliations using the provided data.
• Investigate the alignment between politician voting records and revealed voter preferences in a direct democracy context.
• Examine the robustness of the 'beauty premium' findings across the political spectrum as described in the abstract.

Strengths

• Dataset includes replication code, facilitating reproducibility of the published study.
• Data is linked to specific institutional features of Swiss politics, such as mandatory disclosure and direct democracy.
• Beauty ratings were provided by participants unfamiliar with the politicians, as noted in the description.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 2.9 MB size suggests a relatively small dataset.

Provenance

Source

David Stadelmann

Collection Method

Leveraged institutional features of Swiss politics; linked independent beauty ratings to behavioral outcomes.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 15:10:38; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Switzerland