Replication Data for: Corruption and Ideological Voting

This article examines the effect of corruption on ideological voting. Linking previous studies of political corruption with theories of ideological voting, I argue that when corruption is high, voters place less importance on ideology in voting than they otherwise would. The reason for this effect is related to voters' reduced ability to accurately perceive parties' positions and to their low political efficacy in these contexts. Using data from 97 elections from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, I show that in countries with high corruption, voters consider ideology less in their voting decisions, partially because they face difficulties identifying parties' ideological positions and/or they do not believe that parties can implement their electoral programmes. These relationships hold when I control for socio-economic and political confounders and for voters' increased likelihood of abstaining when corruption is high.