Replication Data for: The Electoral Implications of Coalition Policy-Making

Coalition governance requires parties to come to collective policy decisions while simultaneously competing for votes. This reality has inspired a vibrant literature on coalition policy-making, focused on legislative organization and behavior, though we do not understand how it affects the electorate. I address this gap in the literature by examining how voters’ perceptions of compromise in coalition policy-making affect their vote choices. Analyzing data from six parliamentary democracies where multiparty governance is the norm I find that voters punish parties they view as compromising. More specifically, I find that voters discount the policy accomplishments and policy promises of compromising parties, and that this tendency is more pronounced among previous incumbent cabinet supporters and the politically disinterested. These findings have important implications for the study of voting as well as coalition policy-making.