Research Question: "How, and on which issues/policies do the preferences of the main factions of the 'New Republican Coalition' under Donald Trump converge and diverge?"
Background: For the last 2-3 decades, under the globalist, neo-liberal regime, the main constituency of the Republican party has included pro-business, socially moderate-to-center-right conservatives. The 2016 Presidential election cycle, however, seemed to awaken/energize a new constituency within the Republican party, characterized as "Country, or America, First Conservatives." This brand of conservativism has come to dominate conservative and American political discourse and is generally understood as less pro-business and more socially conservative. My goal is to identify the differences and similarities in policy preferences that define these unlikely allied factions in this broad coalition. Data will be analyzed by various demographics and metrics, such as (Party I.D., obviously), religion, race, gender, income, education, and age, to determine the relative composition of these factions. Data will be drawn from the Pew Research Center Poll: 2017 Political Typology Survey [31103004] dataset. I predict the greatest divergence in preferences to lie in immigration and marriage policy, and convergence in domestic economic policy.
Ind. Variables:
-"Core Conservative"
-"America First Conservative"
-Race
-Gender
-Religion
-Education
-Income
-Age (average)
Dep./Outcome Variables:
-Preferences on Economic policies/issues
-Preferences on Social policies/issues
The wording of the questions asked regarding certain policies in the Typology Survey will dictate which specific economic and social policies are outputted, i.e. "The State should ban gay marriage" vs "Homosexuals should not get married" or, "Immigration, legal and illegal, should be curbed" vs "Immigrants are stealing American jobs".
Research Question: "How, and on which issues/policies do the preferences of the main factions of the 'New Republican Coalition' under Donald Trump converge and diverge?"
Background: For the last 2-3 decades, under the globalist, neo-liberal regime, the main constituency of the Republican party has included pro-business, socially moderate-to-center-right conservatives. The 2016 Presidential election cycle, however, seemed to awaken/energize a new constituency within the Republican party, characterized as "Country, or America, First Conservatives." This brand of conservativism has come to dominate conservative and American political discourse and is generally understood as less pro-business and more socially conservative. My goal is to identify the differences and similarities in policy preferences that define these unlikely allied factions in this broad coalition. Data will be analyzed by various demographics and metrics, such as (Party I.D., obviously), religion, race, gender, income, education, and age, to determine the relative composition of these factions. Data will be drawn from the Pew Research Center Poll: 2017 Political Typology Survey [31103004] dataset. I predict the greatest divergence in preferences to lie in immigration and marriage policy, and convergence in domestic economic policy.
Ind. Variables:
-"Core Conservative"
-"America First Conservative"
-Race
-Gender
-Religion
-Education
-Income
-Age (average)
Dep./Outcome Variables:
-Preferences on Economic policies/issues
-Preferences on Social policies/issues
The wording of the questions asked regarding certain policies in the Typology Survey will dictate which specific economic and social policies are outputted, i.e. "The State should ban gay marriage" vs "Homosexuals should not get married" or, "Immigration, legal and illegal, should be curbed" vs "Immigrants are stealing American jobs".