Social capital

Planned This chapter has not been written. It is listed so the book shows its full scope.

The question

How do bonding ties and cross-class connections relate to the vote and to the 2016 to 2020 swing?

The data

• Precinct votes on census geographiesYears: 2016 and 2020 (contiguous United States only)
• Social Capital AtlasYears: Built from Facebook friendship data; see the provider for the measurement window.

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The scope

Places Each row of the data is a place such as a county or a neighborhood, so results describe places. They do not describe the people in them.

The chapter sits in Part XIII, Hardship, health and the vote, the political map. Its unit of analysis is places. See how the book treats evidence.