Voting Made Safe and Easy — Replication Package

This repository contains the replication materials for:

Voting Made Safe and Easy: The Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions
Political Science Research and Methods, 1(1): 117–137

The files in this repository allow full replication of the analyses, tables, and figures reported in the article and its online appendix.

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Repository Structure

Data

• salta_data.Rdata
  Original survey data used in the analysis.
• datamatch.Rdata
  Recoded dataset produced during preprocessing.
• datamatched.Rdata
  Matched dataset used for the main analyses.

Scripts

• script1_recoding.R
  Recodes raw survey variables.
  Input: salta_data.Rdata → Output: datamatch.Rdata
• script2_analysis.R
  Replicates Tables 1–5 from the paper using matching methods.
  Input: datamatch.Rdata → Output: datamatched.Rdata, m.out.Rdata
• script3_multilev.R
  Estimates multilevel models and replicates Figure A4 and Table A4 (Online Appendix 4).
  Input: datamatched.Rdata

Model Files

• m.out.Rdata
  MatchIt object produced during the matching procedure.
• model.bug
  JAGS model specification for multilevel analyses.
• coda.samples.Rdata
  Posterior samples from JAGS estimation.

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Replication Order

1. Run script1_recoding.R
2. Run script2_analysis.R
3. Run script3_multilev.R

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Notes

• All analyses are implemented in R, with multilevel models estimated using JAGS.
• Scripts are designed to be run sequentially as outlined above.