Replication Data for: Electoral Accountability and the Channeling of Content Removal: Theory and Evidence from Google Transparency Reports.

Replication materials (R code and data) for \"Electoral Accountability and the Channeling of Content Removal: Theory and Evidence from Google Transparency Reports.\" The paper develops a political agency model of content removal and tests its predictions using country-year panel data on Google Transparency Report removal requests (2009-2022). Exploiting quasi-experimental variation in the timing of constitutionally scheduled elections, the analysis shows that takedown requests from democratic governments decline significantly as elections approach, while authoritarian regimes show no such reputational-discipline effect. Court orders -- a separate institutional channel -- show no electoral-cycle pattern in either regime type, consistent with the model.