United States mass voting behavior data from the third electoral era, spanning 1853 to 1892. The dataset, created by David A. Lake, analyzes the relationship between ethnoreligious group subcultures and partisan preferences. It provides a cross-state and cross-regional perspective on political behavior during this period.
Use Cases
- Modeling historical partisan preferences based on ethnoreligious group affiliations described in the study.
- Analyzing regional variations in mass political behavior across states as referenced in the description.
- Studying the impact of immigrant and native ethnic group values on party combat as a core theme.
- Investigating the preconditions for social-group political consciousness as a conceptual framework provided by the data.
Strengths
- Covers a significant 39-year time period from 1853 to 1892.
- Analysis cuts across multiple states and regions, not confined to a single area.
- Integrates detailed ethnoreligious case studies into a larger electoral system overview.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- David A. Lake
- Collection Method
- Analysis of historical voting patterns and ethnoreligious group data.
- Time Range
- 1853-1892
- Freshness
- unknown
- Geography
- United States