Ratio Working Papers
No 54:
How Many Democrats per Republican at UC-Berkeley and Stanford? Voter Registration Data Across 23 Academic Departments
Daniel B. Klein ()
and Andrew Western
Abstract: Using the records of the seven San Francisco Bay Area
counties that surround University of California, Berkeley and Stanford
University, we conducted a systematic and thorough study of the party
registration of the Berkeley and Stanford faculty in 23 academic
departments. The departments span the social sciences, humanities, hard
sciences, math, law, journalism, engineering, medicine, and the business
school. Of the total of 1497 individual names on the cumulative list, we
obtained readings on 1005, or 67 percent. The findings support the
“one-party campus” conjecture. For UC-Berkeley, we found an overall
Democrat:Republican ratio of 9.9:1. For Stanford, we found an overall D:R
ratio of 7.6:1. Moreover, the breakdown by faculty rank shows that
Republicans are an “endangered species” on the two campuses. This article
contains a link to the complete data (with individual identities
redacted).
Keywords: academia; diversity; Democratic; Republican; voting; political parties; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: A13; A14; (follow links to similar papers)
34 pages, November 18, 2004
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