Voter Response to Working-Class Candidates in Electoral Studies

Replication data for a 2024 study published in Electoral Studies, Volume 92. The materials were created by authors Jared Abbott and Fred DeVeaux to support the analysis of whether working-class candidates influence class-based voting patterns.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between candidate_class and voter_choice using regression models.
• Investigate how voter_income or voter_occupation moderates the effect of candidate background on vote_share.
• Model the activation of class_identity as a predictor based on candidate characteristics and district demographics.
• Replicate the study's statistical tests on the correlation between working-class candidacy and electoral outcomes.

Strengths

• Peer-reviewed replication data for a 2024 journal article in Electoral Studies.
• Data is associated with a specific DOI (10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102862) for citation.

Limitations

• Specific sample size, row count, and column details are unknown.
• Geographic coverage of the electoral data is not specified in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, provided by author Fred DeVeaux.

Collection Method

Replication materials for a published academic study, likely comprising survey or electoral results data.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated in the repository on 2026-04-06.

Geography

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