Replication data for: Neoliberal Reform and Protest in Latin American Democracies: A Replication and Correction

Do neoliberal economic reforms in Latin American democracies mobilize citizens to overcome their collective action problems and protest? A recent addition to the scholarship on this crucial question of the relationship of markets and politics, Bellinger and Arce (2011), concludes that economic liberalization does have this effect, working to repoliticize collective actors and reinvigorate democracy. We reexamine their analyses and demonstrate that due to common errors in the use of multiplicative interaction terms---misinterpreting the coefficients in isolation and failing to calculate the marginal effect of the variable of theoretical interest---the article's optimistic assessment of the consequences for democracy of economic liberalization in the region is not supported by its own empirical results.