Replication Data for: “This is what the Bolsheviks do”: How democratic politicians use foreign revolutions to attract voters

Revolution in one country can inspire protests in another country, demanding responses from elites seeking to maintain power. Scholars typically use a policy-centered approach to analyze these responses, focusing on how policy strategies of repression or co-optation are used to prevent revolution. But in democracies, political survival is also electoral success. This article therefore argues that studying the communicative signaling of political elites allows us to see another important response to foreign revolutions: how democratic politicians through speeches use foreign revolutions to attract revolution-wary voters. Building on recent legislative debate scholarship, the article develops a parliamentary speech signaling framework and demonstrates its usefulness by analyzing Danish elite responses to revolutions in the 1910s. This approach enables us to see how democratic politicians use foreign revolutions for electoral advantages, and it addresses a noted difficulty of previous research in clarifying whether co-optation or repression in democracies emerged as responses to revolutions.一国爆发的革命往往会催生他国的抗议运动，倒逼致力于维护自身权力的精英阶层作出回应。学者们通常采用以政策为中心的研究路径分析这类回应，聚焦于镇压或笼络等政策策略如何被用于防范革命。但在民主政体中，政治存续同样等同于选举胜利。因此，本文提出，对政治精英的沟通信号展开研究，能够让我们洞悉民主政客针对外国革命所采取的另一类重要回应：他们如何借助演讲，借外国革命议题吸引对革命抱有警惕态度的选民。本文借鉴近年立法辩论领域的研究成果，构建了议会演讲信号分析框架，并通过分析丹麦精英阶层对20世纪10年代革命运动的回应，验证了该框架的应用价值。这一研究路径不仅能够揭示民主政客如何借助外国革命获取选举优势，同时也解决了既往研究中一项公认的难题——厘清民主政体中究竟是以笼络还是镇压作为应对革命的策略。