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.

Reading path

Outside the United States

12 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.

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Institutional trust outside the United States
Planned in Part V, Institutions and democratic attitudes
Are partisan or ideological gaps in institutional confidence widening in other democracies?
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Support for democracy
Chapter 5.3 in Part V, Institutions and democratic attitudes
In a fixed set of countries, support for a democratic system changed by +1.2 points between 1995 to 1998 and 2017 to 2023, while approval of a strong leader rose by 9.9 points and army rule by 7.6 points.
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Left and right across countries
Chapter 1.3 in Part I, Labels and beliefs
The attitude that left-right self-placement follows most closely differs by country, and across countries surveyed in 2005 or later the median correlation on each of three attitudes lies between +0.07 and +0.09.
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Non-placement on the left-right scale
Planned in Part I, Labels and beliefs
Who declines to place themselves on the left-right scale, and where?
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Education and ideology
Planned in Part I, Labels and beliefs
Is the link between ideology and political action stronger among the educated?
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Basic values and left-right
Companion 1.3a in Part I, Labels and beliefs
People who rate universalism higher place themselves further left in all 18 Western European countries in the ESS from 2002 to 2024, with a mean correlation of −0.19.
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Countries in value space
Planned in Part I, Labels and beliefs
Where do countries sit on traditional-secular and survival-self-expression values, and how have they moved?
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The silent revolution
Planned in Part I, Labels and beliefs
Are younger birth cohorts more emancipative, and has the shift stalled?
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The obedience-autonomy disposition
Companion 1.3b in Part I, Labels and beliefs
Valuing obedience over autonomy in children goes with placing oneself further right, with a median correlation of +0.04 across 103 countries in the WVS and EVS from 2005 to 2023.
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Order, security and threat
Planned in Part I, Labels and beliefs
Do security values and threat perceptions lean right, and where?
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National pride and grievance
Planned in Part I, Labels and beliefs
Do national pride and national grievance relate to nativism in the same way?
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Secularization in Europe
Planned in Part III, Participation and coalitions
Do two independent surveys agree on where European religious attendance fell?
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