The Neighbor Effect: Population Density and Political Ideology

• In Event: The Politics of Place: Geography and Electoral Outcomes

Brief Overview

Our model shows how neighborhoods shape our interactions and influence our political ideology. We use new causal inference techniques to identify the empirical effect of population density on political ideology—and by extension, voting behavior.

Authors

• Raphael Bostic, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

• Anthony Williams Orlando, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona