Replication Data for: Performance Federalism and Local Democracy: Theory and Evidence from School Tax Referenda
<|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:'Federal governments are increasingly employing empirical measures of lower-level government performance to ensure that provincial and local jurisdictions pursue national policy goals. We call this burgeoning phenomenon performance federalism and argue that it can distort democratic accountability in lower-level elections. We estimate the impact of a widely publicized federal indicator of local school district performance - one that we show does not allow voters to draw valid inferences about the quality of local educational institutions - on voter support for school tax levies in a U.S. state uniquely appropriate for this analysis. The results indicate that a signal of poor district performance increases the probability of levy failure - a substantively large and robust effect that disproportionately affects impoverished communities. Th' . 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" : ["Education politics","Federalism","New Public Management","No Child Left Behind","Performance measurement","Voting behavior"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Federal governments are increasingly employing empirical measures of lower-level government performance to ensure that provincial and local jurisdictions pursue national policy goals. We call this burgeoning phenomenon performance federalism and argue that it can distort democratic accountability in lower-level elections. We estimate the impact of a widely publicized federal indicator of local school district performance - one that we show does not allow voters to draw valid inferences about the quality of local educational institutions - on voter support for school tax levies in a U.S. state uniquely appropriate for this analysis. The results indicate that a signal of poor district performance increases the probability of levy failure - a substantively large and robust effect that disproportionately affects impoverished communities. Th' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
Federal governments are increasingly employing empirical measures of lower-level government performance to ensure that provincial and local jurisdictions pursue national policy goals. We call this burgeoning phenomenon performance federalism and argue that it can distort democratic accountability in lower-level elections. We estimate the impact of a widely publicized federal indicator of local school district performance - one that we show does not allow voters to draw valid inferences about the quality of local educational institutions - on voter support for school tax levies in a U.S. state uniquely appropriate for this analysis. The results indicate that a signal of poor district performance increases the probability of levy failure - a substantively large and robust effect that disproportionately affects impoverished communities. Th
Education politics; Federalism; New Public Management; No Child Left Behind; Performance measurement; Voting behavior