Replication Data for: The Spillover of the US Capitol Insurrection: Reducing Expressed Support for Domestic Far-right Parties

Although far-right insurrections often catch worldwide attention, little is known about whether and how these autocratization events affect other countries. This paper studies the spillover of a prototype of such coup attempts—the January 6th Capitol insurrection. I argue that a far-right insurrection abroad can trigger a transnational learning process, which increases the salience of the far-right’s anti-democratic potential. Consequently, due to shaming and change in voting calculus, citizens are less likely to support the domestic far-right party. To test this expectation, I use two panel datasets in Western Europe fielded amid the Capitol insurrection. Both analyses show that the expressed support for domestic far-right parties decreases after this autocratization event. I discuss how these findings enrich the literature on autocratization, far-right, and transnational learning.