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Politics in theUS Workplace
A research initiative and open data project to understand the role of politics in the workplace—with partisan estimates for organizations, industries, occupations, and metros.
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Political alignment varies significantly by region. Our analysis of metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) reveals distinct geographic trends, highlighting the polarization between urban centers and rural areas.
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View ResearchVRscores: A Voter Registration-Based Approach for Measuring Workforce Politics
Max Kagan, Justin Frake, Reuben Hurst
This paper introduces VRscores, a workplace-level measure of employee partisanship constructed by linking U.S. voter registrations to electronically available profiles of workers covering 2012 to 2024. The…
Political Segregation in the US Workplace
Justin Frake, Reuben Hurst, Max Kagan
Using a novel dataset created by matching employment histories with voter registration data for 45.3 million workers, we provide the first large-scale estimate of workplace political segregation in the United States. We…
Organizational Civic Culture: Workplaces as Engines of Democratic Participation
Reuben Hurst, Max Kagan, Matthew Lee, Justin Frake
Organizational cultures shape not only workplace outcomes but also civic life. While prior work has largely conceptualized civic culture within geographic units (e.g., country, state, or city), we introduce and evaluate…