Replication Data for: “Los nadies y las nadies”: The effect of peace-building on political behavior in Colombia

How do peace-building institutions affect political behavior? This paper studies the historic victory of the Colombian Left in the 2022 Presidential Elections in light of the implementation of local peace-building programs through the 2016 peace accords. Using a quasi-experimental design, we show that the Development Plans with a Territorial Focus (PDET), a central component of the 2016 Peace Accords between the government and the FARC, increased the vote share for the leftist coalition, Pacto Historico, in the 2022 elections by increasing voter turnout in PDET regions. In a departure from existing literature, we find that the explanatory effect of violence on vote share is significantly reduced when we include an indicator for PDET implementation and additional covariates. While there is a substantial body of work examining the effects of conflict violence and the presence of armed actors on elections, there has been relatively little focus on how the peace building has affected vote choice and political behavior. We see our project as a bridge to fill this gap in the literature.