Department of Political Science

Political Science
1414 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-4144
Fax: 612-626-7599
E-mail: polisci@umn.edu

Data

Malapportionment Data for:

  • "The Value of a Vote: Malapportionment in Comparative Perspective" (with Richard Snyder). British Journal of Political Science 31(3):651-671 (Fall 2001).
  • "Devaluing the Vote in Latin America" (with Richard Snyder).   The Journal of Democracy 12(1): 146-159 (January 2001)

ReadMe SamuelsSnyder.doc

Samuels-snyder data.zip

Electoral Accountability data for:

  • "Presidentialism and Accountability for the Economy in Comparative Perspective."American Political Science Review 98(3): 425-436 (August 2004).
  • "Electoral Accountability and the Variety of Democratic Regimes" (with Timothy Hellwig). Forthcoming, British Journal of Political Science .
  • "Voting in Open Economies: The Electoral Consequences of Globalization" (with Timothy Hellwig). Forthcoming, Comparative Political Studies 40(7) (March 2007).

Are available at: http://www.polsci.uh.edu/hellwig/data.htm

Campaign Finance Data used for:

•  "Pork-Barreling is Not Credit-Claiming or Advertising: Campaign Finance and the Sources of the Personal Vote in Brazil."The Journal of Politics 64(3):845-863 (August 2002).

•  "Does Money Matter? Campaign Finance in Newly Democratic Countries: Theory and Evidence from Brazil."Comparative Politics 34: 23-4

•  "Money, Elections and Democracy in Brazil"Latin American Politics and Society 43(2): 27-48 (Summer 2001). (Refereed)

•  “Incumbents and Challengers on a Level Playing Field: Assessing the Impact of Campaign Finance in Brazil.” The Journal of Politics 63(2): 569-584 (May 2001).

•  “When Does Every Penny Count? Intra-party Competition and Campaign Finance in Brazil.” Party Politics 7(1): 89-102 (February 2001). (Refereed)

•  Several Brazilian publications

ALLDATA.ZIP .N.B. These are NOT official data, although they were obtained from the Brazilian TSE. Please read the articles carefully before venturing to use these data. At some point in the future I plan to tidy up these databases but "resource constraints" impede progress.

STATA dataset used for

"Sources of Mass Partisanship in Brazil."Latin American Politics and Society 48(2): 1-27 (Summer 2006)

LAPS06.xls