Replication Data for: Religious Mobilization and the Selection of Political Elites: Evidence from Postwar Italy
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'The literature has identified three key characteristics of effective electoral mobilizers: reputation, embeddedness in the local community, and the ability to reward and sanction voters. Religious leaders may possess all these characteristics. Can they favor their preferred candidates? Using a novel dataset of connections between politicians and Italian Catholic bishops throughout the 20th century, I conduct the first quantitative assessment of the electoral returns of personal connections to a religious leader. Leveraging the timing of bishops’ nominations within a difference-in-differences strategy, I estimate that bishops born in the electoral district yield a 27% increase in the individual preference votes for their connected candidate. Additional analyses point to the provision of campaign opportunities as the main mechanism drivin' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Electoral politics","Mobilization","Political connections","Religious leaders","Voting behavior"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'The literature has identified three key characteristics of effective electoral mobilizers: reputation, embeddedness in the local community, and the ability to reward and sanction voters. Religious leaders may possess all these characteristics. Can they favor their preferred candidates? Using a novel dataset of connections between politicians and Italian Catholic bishops throughout the 20th century, I conduct the first quantitative assessment of the electoral returns of personal connections to a religious leader. Leveraging the timing of bishops’ nominations within a difference-in-differences strategy, I estimate that bishops born in the electoral district yield a 27% increase in the individual preference votes for their connected candidate. Additional analyses point to the provision of campaign opportunities as the main mechanism drivin' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
The literature has identified three key characteristics of effective electoral mobilizers: reputation, embeddedness in the local community, and the ability to reward and sanction voters. Religious leaders may possess all these characteristics. Can they favor their preferred candidates? Using a novel dataset of connections between politicians and Italian Catholic bishops throughout the 20th century, I conduct the first quantitative assessment of the electoral returns of personal connections to a religious leader. Leveraging the timing of bishops’ nominations within a difference-in-differences strategy, I estimate that bishops born in the electoral district yield a 27% increase in the individual preference votes for their connected candidate. Additional analyses point to the provision of campaign opportunities as the main mechanism drivin
Electoral politics; Mobilization; Political connections; Religious leaders; Voting behavior