The treatment works: Revisiting a key link in contextual theories of political behavior

The use of self-reported contextual factors is prominent in political science. While recent research demonstrates that perceptions of contextual factors positively associate with census measured factors, it is less clear for whom and under what conditions this relationship holds. In this paper, I examine the relationship between census measured racial and ethnic composition and perceived racial and ethnic neighborhood composition. I use the 2008 and 2012 Collaborative Multi-Racial Post-Election Study (CMPS) datasets and append US Census data to test how well respondents understand the racial and ethnic composition of their neighborhood. Leveraging the non-White oversamples in the CMPS, I am able to test this relationship among Latinos, Blacks, and Whites. I find a positive relationship between perceived neighborhood composition and census measured composition. Respondents who live in areas with higher proportions of a racial/ethnic group are more likely to perceive that their neighborhood is composed of that group. These findings hold across Black, Latino, and White sub-samples. These findings complement and extend recent work about how well respondents understand their local environment

Replication Data for: "The Treatment Works: Revisiting a Key Link in Contextual Theories of Political Behavior"

This is the replication data for "The Treatment Works: Revisiting a Key Link in Contextual Theories of Political Behavior." The data are in .csv format and the script is in R

prq_supporting_info_online_supp – Supplemental material for Local Origins: Context, Group Identity, and Politics of Place

<p>Supplemental material, prq_supporting_info_online_supp for Local Origins: Context, Group Identity, and Politics of Place by Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta in Political Research Quarterly</p

Replication Data for: Direct and Indirect Xenophobic Attacks: Unpacking Portfolios of Identity

Replication data and script for "Direct and Indirect Xenophobic Attacks: Unpacking Portfolios of Identity