Ghana 2012: The Impact of Domestic Election Observation on Electoral Violence, Integrity, and Voting Behavior

This Dataverse contains four distinct datasets collected during a study of the 2012 Presidential elections in Ghana from 60 electoral constituencies in four regions in the country. (1) Data collected using a survey instrument called the Violent Incident Report (VIR) that was administered at treated and control polling stations (2,310 polling stations in total) on election day. Treated stations were under daylong observation by observers from the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) and control stations had no observers. This dataset also contains the presidential vote totals from each polling station; (2) Data collected using a survey instrument called the Post-Election Survey (PES) that was administered to roughly 6,000 individual citizens in the communities surrounding treated and control polling stations during the 48 hours following the elections; (3) Data collected in summer 2013 that geocoded locations of treated and control polling stations in one of the four regions of the study (Ashanti); (4) Data collected as part of the same follow-up project that documented other characteristics of the sampled electoral constituencies in the Ashanti region.