“It’s Those Crazy Liberal Universities”: Political Context, Educational Infrastructure, and Party Identification

• In Event: Traits and voting behavior

Brief Overview

Because education’s effect on partisanship might be buttressed by the contextual effect of local density of colleges and universities, we include a new variable, “educational infrastructure,” in a multilevel model of party identification.

Authors

• Grant Allard, Clemson University

• Laura R. Olson, Clemson University