Matt Golder

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Matt Golder
Studies: 11
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Considerable evidence suggests that legislative fragmentation can negatively affect the survival of democratic presidential regimes. While there is a vast literature examining the determinants of legislative ...

hdl:1902.1/10475
816 downloads + analyses
Updated: Nov 28, 2007
Replication data for: Gubernatorial and Presidential Coattails in Brazil by Thomas Brambor; William Roberts Clark; Matt Golder
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In ‘Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses’, we report the results of several replications that we conducted of analyses examining electoral institutions and party systems. One ...

hdl:1902.1/10555
34 downloads + analyses
Updated: Nov 28, 2007
Replication data for: Electoral System Choice by Thomas Brambor; William Roberts Clark; Matt Golder
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In ‘Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses’, we report the results of several replications that we conducted of analyses examining electoral institutions and party systems. One ...

hdl:1902.1/10556
152 downloads + analyses
Updated: Nov 28, 2007
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Multiplicative interaction models are common in the quantitative political science literature. This is so for good reason. Institutional arguments frequently imply that the relationship between political ...

hdl:1902.1/10483
278 downloads + analyses
Updated: Nov 28, 2007
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This article describes a new data set that covers the electoral institutions used in all of the democratic legislative and presidential elections in 199 countries between 1946 (or independence) and 2000. A ...

hdl:1902.1/10479
1516 downloads + analyses
Updated: Nov 28, 2007
Replication data for: Are African Party Systems Different? by Thomas Brambor; William Roberts Clark; Matt Golder
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Recently Mozaffar et al. [Mozaffar, S., Scarritt, J.R., Galaich, G., 2003. Electoral institutions, ethnopolitical cleavages and party systems in Africa’s emerging democracies. American Political Science ...

hdl:1902.1/10559
634 downloads + analyses
Updated: Nov 28, 2007
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Methodological problems associated with selection bias and interaction effects have hindered the accumulation of systematic knowledge about the factors that explain cross-national variation in the success ...

hdl:1902.1/10480
276 downloads + analyses
Updated: Nov 28, 2007
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The construction of a monetary union with a single currency in Europe raises serious concerns for those who understand the democratic process as one in which social groups compete on different ideological ...

hdl:1902.1/10482
142 downloads + analyses
Updated: Nov 28, 2007
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In their 1996 article in the British Journal of Politic Science, Robert Jackman and Karin Volpert examine the conditions favoring parties of the extreme right in western Europe. They report strong evidence ...

hdl:1902.1/10481
195 downloads + analyses
Updated: Nov 28, 2007
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Although Duverger is traditionally seen as synonymous with the institutionalist approach to party systems, this article shows that he believed social pressures were the driving force behind the multiplication ...

hdl:1902.1/10477
481 downloads + analyses
Updated: Nov 28, 2007