Replication Data for \"The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950 - 2020)\"

This paper introduces the Extraterritorial Rights and Restrictions dataset (EVRR), the first global time-series dataset of non-resident citizen voting policies and procedures. Although there have been previous efforts to document external voting, no existing data source simultaneously captures the scale (195 countries), time frame (71 years), and level of detail concerning extraterritorial voting rights and restrictions (over 20 variables). After a brief overview of prior datasets, we introduce EVRR coding criteria with a focus on conceptual clarity and transparency. Descriptive analysis of the dataset reveals both the steady expansion of extraterritorial voting as well as several regional and temporal trends of voting rights restrictions. Finally, we revisit and extend the work of two groundbreaking cross-national studies focused on the causes and effects of external voting rights. Using EVRR data we demonstrate that including more fine-grained aspects of extraterritorial voting provisions in these analyses improves understanding of important political and economic outcomes.

本文介绍了域外权利与限制数据集（Extritrritorial Rights and Restrictions, 简称EVRR），这是全球首个针对非居民公民投票政策与程序的时序数据集。尽管此前已有多项研究对境外投票进行了记录，但目前尚无任何数据源能够同时覆盖195个国家的研究规模、71年的时间跨度，以及超过20个变量的域外投票权利与限制细节维度。在简要梳理既往相关数据集的基础上，本文提出了EVRR的编码标准，重点关注概念清晰度与流程透明度。对该数据集的描述性分析显示，域外投票呈现稳步扩张的态势，同时也存在若干区域性与时效性的投票权利限制趋势。最后，本文重新审视并拓展了两项开创性跨国研究的工作——这两项研究聚焦于境外投票权利的成因与影响。借助EVRR数据集，我们证明了在相关分析中纳入域外投票规则的更细粒度维度，能够提升对重要政治与经济结果的理解。