| dc.contributor.author | Gerring, John | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hicken, Allen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Weitzel, Daniel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cojocaru, Lee | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-14T09:10:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-14T09:10:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/57350 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study of electoral contestation generally focuses on districts or regions rather than polities. We present a new dataset that measures electoral contestation through historical records of elections in sovereign and semi-sovereign polities throughout the world from 1789 to the present. We also offer a new index of contestation intended to capture multiple dimensions of this complex concept. Our second objective is to explain variation across polities and through time in electoral contestation. We argue that the degree of contestation in a polity is affected by demography, with larger polities fostering greater electoral contestation. This hypothesis is tested with a series of cross-national regression tests that employ a variety of specifications and estimators – crosssectional, fixed-effect, and instrumental variable. We find a robust association between population and contestation extending throughout the modern era. | sv |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research project was supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Grant M13-0559:1, PI: Staffan I. Lindberg, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to Wallenberg Academy Fellow Staffan I. Lindberg, Grant 2013.0166, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; as well as by
internal grants from the Vice-Chancellor’s office, the Dean of the College of Social Sciences, and the Department of Political Science at University of Gothenburg. We performed simulations and other computational tasks using resources provided by the Notre Dame Center for Research Computing (CRC) through the High Performance
Computing section and the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at the National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden, SNIC 2017/1-407 and 2017/1-68. We specifically acknowledge the assistance of In-Saeng Suh at
CRC and Johan Raber at SNIC in facilitating our use of their respective systems. | sv |
| dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Papers | sv |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2018:73 | sv |
| dc.title | Electoral Contestation: A Comprehensive Polity-Level Analysis | sv |
| dc.type | Text | sv |
| dc.contributor.organization | V-Dem Institute | sv |
