Good Neighbors? Gentrification, Community Identity, and Political Choice in Chicago

• In Event: Changing Faces Rebuilding Politics

Brief Overview

We use an original survey of Chicagoans and a novel approach for identifying gentrifiers within survey data to examine the role of placed-based identities in shaping the political preferences of gentrifiers and longtime residents.

Authors

• Matthew D Nelsen, University of Miami

• Kumar Ramanathan, The University of Chicago

• Thomas Ogorzalek, Northwestern University