Federal Elections Project

这个项目，即联邦选举项目，其中心目标是将2000年美国联邦选举结果在选区一级与2000年美国人口普查的人口数据相结合。 调查人员将收集所有联邦选举的数据，特别是总统和副总统，参议员和众议员的数据。 虽然重点是联邦办公室，但数据集也将包括2000年举行州长选举的11个州的结果。 选举和人口统计数据的合并是特别重要的，因为生态推断的新技术允许将汇总数据统一起来研究许多政治问题。联邦选举项目允许研究人员和其他学者就几个不同的主题进行一些研究。 他们将继续他们目前对种族重新划分和重新调整的研究，用数据来估计和解释2000年全国种族两极分化的程度。 与此相关的是，他们将研究拉丁裔选民参与和党派关系的演变- -拉丁裔选民是选民中增长最快的部分。 他们还将对党派之争的地理基础进行更彻底的研究。 他们将为美国每个选区、县、国会选区制定一个衡量潜在党派的标准。这些数据对对选举和政治行为感兴趣的学者来说将具有巨大的价值。

The central goal of this project, the Federal Elections Project, is to mesh the 2000 United States federal election results at the precinct level with the demographic data from the 2000 U.S. census. The investigators will gather data for all federal elections, specifically for president and vice president, senator, and representative. Although the focus is on federal offices, the data set will also include results from the eleven states holding gubernatorial elections in 2000. The merging of election and demographic data are especially critical now that new techniques of ecological inference allow the study of numerous political questions unitizing aggregate data.The Federal Elections Project allows the researcher and other scholars to carry out a number of studies on several different topics. Continuing their current research on racial redistricting and realignment, they will use data to estimate and explain the level of racial polarization in 2000 around the nation. In a related vein, they will study the evolution of participation and partisanship of Latino voters - - the fastest growing segment of the electorate. They will also launch a much more thorough study of the geographical basis of partisanship. And they will develop a measure of the underlying partisanship for each precinct, county, congressional district in America.These data will be of immense value to scholars interested in elections and political behavior.