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

Does place matter

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

1
Party and place
Chapter 8.3 in Part VIII, Places and the people in them
Across 12 policy issues in 2013 to 2021, Democrats and Republicans in the same kind of county differ by 43.1 points, and one party's members in deep-blue and deep-red counties differ by 5.6 points.
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Variation in opinion within places
Planned in Part VIII, Places and the people in them
How much of the variation in issue opinion lies between counties rather than within them?
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Partisans in the other party's territory
Planned in Part VIII, Places and the people in them
Where do Democrats and Republicans live in counties their party lost, and do these voters and donors differ from aligned partisans?
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Composition and behavior in county change
Planned in Part VIII, Places and the people in them
How much of county-level change since 2000 is composition and how much is behavior within groups?
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Immigration and local context
Planned in Part VIII, Places and the people in them
Do immigration attitudes differ with the local foreign-born share?
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Movers and opinion change
Planned in Part VIII, Places and the people in them
Do people who move to a different kind of county change their political views?
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Cohort change in partisan sorting
Chapter 2.1 in Part II, Change and partisan feeling
Among ANES partisans who place themselves on the ideology scale, conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans fell from 19.6% in 1972 to 6.3% in 2024.
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