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How Many Democrats per Republican at UC-Berkeley and Stanford?

Voter Registration Data across 23 Academic Departments

by

Daniel B. Klein
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Santa Clara Universit
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Tel. 1-408-554-6951
Email: dklein@scu.edu

Andrew Western
Undergraduate student
Economics and Political Science major
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Tel. 1-602-790-8359
Email: awestern@scu.edu

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(Link to pdf below)

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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 Stanford, we found an overall Democrat to Republican ratio of 7.6 to 1. For UC-Berkeley, we found an overall D to R ratio of 9.9 to 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).

Links to materials:

Pdf link to the complete academic working paper, to appear in Academic Questions:

How Many Democrats per Republican at UC-Berkeley and Stanford?

Voter Registration Data across 23 Academic Departments

By Daniel B. Klein and Andrew Western

Data and figures, in Excel: The complete data (names redacted) and all figures

Dan Klein PowerPoint presentation "Ideology of Faculty" (in PDF)

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