Replication Data for "The Micro-Foundations of Party Competition and Issue Ownership"

The article uses two datasets, which cannot be deposited online, but are freely available to registered users. The data of the German Socio-Economic Panel can be requested via http://www.diw.de/en/diw_02.c.222836.en/access.html. Here we are using version 24 (DOI: 10.5684/soep.v24). The data of the British Household Panel Study can be requested via http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=20000. Here we provide two STATA do-files, one for each dataset, that will create the working file, which was used in the article. The do-files to merge and recode the original data.