Replication Data and Code for: Authoritarianism Rising as Polls Loom: The Authoritarian Election Countdown Effect

This repository contains all replication materials for the paper titled "Authoritarianism Rising as Polls Loom: The Authoritarian Election Countdown Effect". The study investigates the relationship between electoral threat and authoritarian rhetoric in Slovak parliamentary debates over the past 30 years. It includes the cleaned data, analysis scripts, and documentation necessary to reproduce the results and figures presented in the paper.