Does Democracy Flourish in the Dark? Regional Development and Democracy Building

Replication dataset. Key variables: KOD_OBEC, # Municipality ID year, # Year/Election VOLICI, # No. of eligible voters (e) NL_mean, # Nighttime light intensity (t-1) NL_mean_diff, # Nighttime light intensit, diff: (t-1) and (e-1) NL_mean_lag, # Nighttime light intensity (e-1) NLIhouses, # Nighttime light intensity (t-1), aggregation by houses NL_houses_diff, NL_houses_lag, PLATNE_HLASY, # Ballots casted (e) incumbent_L1_count, # Votes for incumbent system_count, # Votes for pro-system parties KSCM_count, # Votes for the communist party contains("spill"), # Aggregated NL intensity in the proximity of the municipality MP_k_T1, # No. of MPs from the municipality (government) MP_o_T1, # No. of MPs from the municipality (opposition) lon, # Longitude (WGS84) lat # Latitude (WGS84)