VRscores: A New Measure and Data Set of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kagan, Max; Frake, Justin; Hurst, Reuben
• 署名单位: Columbia University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2025.20402
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: CEO IDEOLOGY; firm performance; REPRESENTATION; INVESTMENT; executives; DISCRETION; diversity; WORKPLACE; IDENTITY; seeking

摘要

This paper introduces VRscores, a workplace-level measure of employee partisanship constructed by linking U.S. voter registrations to electronically available worker profiles covering 2012 to 2024. The resulting organizational-level data set captures the partisanship of 24.5 million workers across more than 534,000 employers with at least five matched employees. We release this employer-level data set along with parallel data sets reporting VRscores at the firm, occupation, industry, and metropolitan statistical area levels. We show that VRscores cover substantially more employees and organizations than donation-based approaches to measuring political ideology. We also show that VRscores are more representative of the U.S. workforce in terms of partisanship, seniority, occupation, and industry. Finally, we demonstrate that VRscores and donation-based measures are only moderately correlated (r = 0:51) and that they classify one in five organizations differently with respect to whether they lean Democratic or Republican.