Our full dataset captures the political affiliations of 27.7 million workers across 3.5 million employers—substantially more than traditional donation-based methods.

VRscores are more representative of employees in terms of partisanship, seniority, and industry compared to donation-based measures. To facilitate future research, we provide a public dataset of VRscores for more than 280,000 organizations covering more than 22 million workers, including unique organizational identifiers.

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Which companies have more Republicans (or Democrats)?

A growing literature explores how workers' personal politics may shape organizational outcomes. In the past, these studies have used campaign finance donations, which cover only a small and unrepresentative sample of employees. Our paper "VRscores: A New Measure and Dataset of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations" (currently an R&R [minor revision] at Organization Science) describes and shares an alternative which is based on voter registrations (VRscores). In the paper, we compare VRscores versus donations-based approaches and show that they offer far deeper and broader coverage of the U.S. labor force. We also describe why we believe that that using voter registrations rather than campaign donations is a better theoretical match for many research questions related to employees' partisanship and/or ideology.

The working paper is available here.

Are Americans politically segregated at work?

Political segregation in the United States is increasing across geographic and social domains. As Democrats and Republicans are less likely to come into contact with one another in their neighborhoods, churches, schools, or other areas, some have pointed to the workplace as an ideal opportunity for cross-partisan context that can foster norms of deliberation and tolerance. Using our matched voter file and workforce history dataset, our paper "Partisan Segregation in the United States is Large and Rising" (currently an R&R at Nature Human Behavior), we provide the first ever large-scale look at whether or not this type of workplace cross-partisan contact actually occurs. Our evidence suggests that this type of cross-partisan context may be less common than is hoped, as partisans (i.e., Democrats and Republicans) are strongly sorted into different types of workplaces.

The working paper is available here.