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Replication Data for: Class, ethnicity, age, or education. What characteristics determine citizens' sense of political commonality?

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Title Replication Data for: Class, ethnicity, age, or education. What characteristics determine citizens' sense of political commonality?
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/54AQPW
 
Creator Titelman, Noam
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description We know from election studies which demographic characteristics best predict vote choice, but we know far less about how citizens perceive their similarity to one another in terms of these characteristics. Previous research suggests such perceptions may be crucial for the politicization of social identities and the emergence of political identities. I present results from a novel measurement strategy where respondents are presented with profiles of two fellow citizens, including several demographic attributes. Respondents are asked which of the two they perceive themselves to have more in common, in terms of politics. Respondents’ implicit trade-off of different demographic similarities allows me to measure the relative strength of their perceived political similarities. I find an important role for shared ethnicity, noticeably surpassing shared social class, age, and education. Finally, I find that shared ethnicity receives substantially more weight among 2017 Conservative and 2016 Leave voters than among Labour and Remain voters
 
Subject Social Sciences
Social Identity; Political Commonality; Class;Ethnicity; British Politics
 
Contributor Titelman, Noam