Volume 1Labels, sorting and partisan feeling

Party identification and ideological labels drew closer together in American surveys. The volume asks what the labels contain, in the United States and about 100 countries, how the alignment changed across birth cohorts, and how it differs from partisans' feelings toward the other party.

Volume 2Coalitions and political differences

Participation, group coalitions, issues and attitudes toward institutions and democracy, 1948 to 2024. Party gaps on these measures differ in size and timing, and some reverse with control of the presidency, so no single trend describes them.

Volume 3Votes, giving and places

Election returns, donor records and county data count different populations at different scales. The volume follows the vote from counties to precincts and down the ballot, compares donors with voters, and returns from places to the people who live in them.

Planned

Deprivation and mobility

Planned This question is on the research agenda, outside the main reading sequence. Planned as a section of Companion 8.1c, Measures of hardship compared.

The question

Does present-day deprivation or childhood mobility track the vote once race is held constant?

The data

Precinct votes on census geographiesYears: 2016 and 2020 (contiguous United States only)
Area Deprivation IndexYears: Vintage as distributed with the tract and ZCTA atlas files.
Opportunity AtlasYears: Birth cohorts and outcome years as defined by Chetty and others (2018).
Cooperative Election StudyYears: 2006-2024 (every year; self-reported turnout is available in the 10 even years)

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The scope

Places Each row of the data is a place such as a county or a neighborhood, so results describe places. They do not describe the people in them.

The question belongs to Part VIII, Places and the people in them, votes, giving and places. Its unit of analysis is places. See how the book treats evidence.

The part has an explorer: Neighborhoods.