The Grass Is Not Greener on the Other Side: The Role of Attention in Voting Behavior

Replication script and data for paper "The Grass Is Not Greener on the Other Side: The Role of Attention in Voting Behavior".

The replication script (replication_code.R) is looking for the data in a directory ./DATA. Specifically, it reads data from .RData file (data_replication.RData) with the following variables:

• year ... Election year/Election ID,
• ballot ... Ballot ID -- a combination of KSTRANA (election-specific party ID), VOLKRAJ (constituency ID) and year,
• pref_hlasy ... Number of preferential votes (n),
• otherside ... Indicator variable for candidates listed on the reverse side,
• male ... Indicator variable for males,
• agecat ... Age category,
• VEK ... Age,
• ISCO ... ISCO 1 (other -- not categorized in ISCO),
• maxBallot ... Total number of candidates on the ballot,
• POC_HLASU ... Total number of votes cast for the party,
• dff ... Distance to break,
• ISCED* ... Indicator variables for ISCED categories

Dataset contains only publicly available data described in the underlying paper. Voting data available from https://www.volby.cz/opendata/opendata.htm are augmented with ISCO categories and the variable "otherside". Both were coded manually.