Treffer: Replication Data for Reconceptualising dimensions of political competition in Europe: A demand side approach

Included are: 1. The raw data (before cleaning and preprocessing) can be found in the files ending "Raw3". The codebooks for each of these data files end in "codebook". This will enable the user to identify the statements that are associated with the items EU1 … 7, Eco1 … 7, Cul1 … 7, AD1 and AD2 that are used in the manuscript.// 2. The R codes ending cleaning_plus.R are used to a) clean the datasets according to the procedure outlined in the online Appendix and b) remove entries with missing values for any of the variables that are used in the calibration process to produce balanced datasets (age, education, gender, political interest). Because of step b), the new datasets generated will be smaller than the clean datasets listed in Table 1 of the Appendix.// 3. For the balancing and calibrating (pre-processing), we use a) the datasets for each country generated by 2 above (the files that are followed by the suffix "_clean"), b) the file drop.py, which is the code (in python) for the balancing algorithm that is based on the principle of raking (see the online Appendix), c) the R files that are used to generate the new calibrated datasets that will be used in the Mokken Scale analysis in 5 below (followed by the suffix "balCode"), and d) a set of files ending in the suffix "estimates" that contain the joint distributions derived from the ESS data (i) for age, below versus above the median age and (ii) for education, degree versus no degree, as well as the marginal distributions for gender and political interest. The median ages of the voting population derived from ESS are as follows: Austria: 50 Bulgaria: 52 Croatia: 52 Cyprus: 47 Czech Republic 50 Denmark: 50 England: 53 Estonia: 50 Finland: 54 France: 55 Germany: 53 Greece: 50 Hungary: 49 Ireland: 50 Italy: 50 Lithuania: 53 Poland: 50 Portugal: 52 Romania: 46 Slovakia: 52 Slovenia: 52 Spain: 50// 4. A set of data files with the suffix myBal, which contain the new calibrated datasets that will be used in the Mokken Scale analysis in 5 (below).// 5. A set of R ...