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

Religion and morality

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

1
The god gap in America
Chapter 3.8 in Part III, Participation and coalitions
The Democratic vote gap between seldom and frequent attenders rose from 5.5 points in the ANES studies of 1972 to 1988 to 21.8 points in those of 2008 to 2020 and was 27.7 points in the 2024 CES.
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The rise of the nones
Planned in Part III, Participation and coalitions
How fast did the religiously unaffiliated grow, and how do they vote?
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Religious tradition and race
Chapter 3.9 in Part III, Participation and coalitions
In the 2024 CES, seldom attenders voted more Democratic than frequent attenders by +9.5 points among white born-again Protestants and by +0.8 points among Black Protestants, an interval that includes zero.
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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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Two moralities
Planned in Part I, Labels and beliefs
Which moral judgments divide left from right, and do abortion, gay rights and gender roles form one attitude dimension?
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Class, church and the two axes
Planned in Part I, Labels and beliefs
How do income, education and church attendance sort the economic and cultural dimensions?
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