U.S. Political Donation Patterns by Party and District Dominance

Harvard Dataverse hosts replication data for a study on U.S. political donation behavior. The archive contains the data and code required to reproduce the findings of the paper 'Democrats Donate More to Their Party Where Dominant, Republicans Where Outnumbered'. It was authored by Xiajing Zhu and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between donation_amount and party_dominance_metric within congressional districts.
• Modeling donor_party_affiliation based on local electoral_margin and other demographic features.
• Testing the hypothesis that donation_strategy differs between Democratic and Republican donors using donor-level records.
• Correlating aggregate_donations with district-level competitiveness indicators over time.

Strengths

• Data is structured for full replication of a peer-reviewed academic paper.
• Archive includes both data and analysis code, ensuring methodological transparency.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column names, and data size are not provided in the input.
• The temporal and geographic scope of the underlying data is not explicitly stated.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, authored by Xiajing Zhu.

Collection Method

Data compiled for academic research, likely from sources like FEC records and electoral results.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

United States (implied by context of U.S. political parties and districts).