What Are They Thinking? New Findings from Political Behavior Research

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Resources for data-driven research on the political behavior of the mass public (especially the voting public). Topics include political preferences, knowledge, socialization, learning, and engagement. Most datasets are public opinion surveys. Also see voting & elections (for voter turnout and vote choice) and migration & citizenship (for immigration policy preferences).

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ORIGINAL PROJECT: U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call VotesPres. Tyler's Positions:
27th House 27th Senate
28th House 28th Senate

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a technique for measuring the relationship between two interval- or ratio-level variables

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Teach Political Analysis

Theory & Concepts:
The Essentials of Political Analysis, 6th Edition. Classic introductory text, clear writing, helps students learn, great ancillaries. More info.

Companions for SPSS, Stata, Excel & R. Practice with software of your choice.

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Watch and Learn


Tukey-Kramer Post Hoc Test after One-Way ANOVA
From Todd Grande (15:35)

MORE VIDEOS: Lecture Videos for The Essentials of Political Analysis

Learn How-To Do It with Video Tutorials for R, Stata, SPSS, and Excel


Residuals and Residual Plots
Daniel McCarron discusses and demonstrates regression diagnostics with residuals (13:50).

Blogs, Podcasts & Journals

Politics, Groups, and Identities: .scholarship on social groups, exploring the politics of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, class and other dimensions of identity and structural disadvantage

Int'l J. of Public Opinion Research: .A source of informed analysis and comment for both professionals and academics.

Political Communication: .Features research at the intersection of politics and communication.

Political Psychology: .The journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, dedicated to the analysis of psychological and political processes.

Political Behavior: .Publishes original research in the general fields of political behavior, institutions, processes, and policies.

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Pol. Behavior Data Sites

Longitudinal Study of American Life: .A national study on the thinking and life experiences of Generation X.

Latinobarometro: .Annual public opinion survey that involves some 20,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries. Try online data analysis.

American National Election Studies: .ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation; see Data Center for downloads

Enterprise Surveys: .Firm-level survey of a representative sample of an economy's private sector from the World Bank.

State of First Amendment Surveys: .Examines public attitudes toward freedom of speech, press, religion and the rights of assembly and petition.

See All Public Opinion Surveys Data Sites

New Pol. Behavior Articles with Replication Data

Temperature and Outgroup DiscriminationDonghyun Danny Choi; Mathias Poertner; Nicholas Sambanis (2023)

(Mis-)Estimating Affective Polarization*James Druckman; Samara Klar; *Yanna Krupnikov; *Matthew Levendusky; John Ryan (2022)

(Young) Generations As Social Identities: The Role of Latino*Millennial/Generation Z in Shaping Attitudes About Climate ChangeAshley Ross; Stella Rouse (2022)

Anti-Normative Messaging, Group Cues,and the Nuclear Ban TreatyStephen Herzog; Jonathon Baron; Rebecca Davis Gibbons (2022)

Black Workers in White Places: Daytime Racial Diversity and White Public OpinionBrian Hamel; Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta (2022)

Can Elites Escape Blame by Explaining Themselves? Suspicion and the Limits of Elite ExplanationsJoshua Robison (2022)

Change We Can Believe In: Structural and Content Dynamics Within Belief NetworksNicholas T. Davis; Nic Fishman (2022)

Do Belief Systems Exhibit Dynamic Constraint?*Alexander Coppock; *Donald P. Green (2022)

Does Homeownership Influence Political Behavior? Evidence from Administrative DataAndrew Hall; Jesse Yoder (2022)

Dynamic Political Interest: How Personality Differences and the Political Environment Shape Political Interest*Erik Gahner Larsen (2022)

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Authors with Datasets

Erik Gahner Larsen .Univ. of Kent, see replication data on publications page.

Pablo Barbera .

Neil Malhotra .

Michael Bang Petersen .

Shanto Iyengar .

Joshua Kalla .

Jared McDonald .

Stephen Utych .

Leonid Peisakhin .

David Broockman .UC-Berkeley

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