For replication purposes please note that the analysis uses the raw data of: Lueders, Hans and Aurel Croissant. 2014. Wahlen, Strategien autokratischer Herrschaftssicherung und das Ueberleben autokratischer Regierungen. Zeitschrift fuer vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 8 (3-4): 329-355 The material uploaded here consists of two R scripts, one for replicating the analyses in the article and another for performing robustness tests. Furthermore, we provide the raw and calibrated data, the same as a pdf file with raw data, calibrated data, graphical representations of the data, and results from robustness tests.