Wow!
Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S.
The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles.
VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.
Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S.
The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles.
VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.
April 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wow!
Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S.
The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles.
VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.
Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S.
The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles.
VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.
🎉 Tremendously excited to announce the release of VRscores—an open-source dataset for researchers and journalists interested in studying the political lean of different employers.
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🎉 Tremendously excited to announce the release of VRscores—an open-source dataset for researchers and journalists interested in studying the political lean of different employers.
Cool new data set from @reubenhurst.bsky.social and coauthors: politicsatwork.org
Associated papers:
-Political segregation in the US workplace papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
-VRscores: A New Measure and Dataset of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Associated papers:
-Political segregation in the US workplace papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
-VRscores: A New Measure and Dataset of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Cool new data set from @reubenhurst.bsky.social and coauthors: politicsatwork.org
Associated papers:
-Political segregation in the US workplace papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
-VRscores: A New Measure and Dataset of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Associated papers:
-Political segregation in the US workplace papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
-VRscores: A New Measure and Dataset of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This is cool: new data on party registration for ~28M workers. Also excited that they’re making the dataset public. Open data is the way! Paper here: ssrn.com/abstract=510...
April 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This is cool: new data on party registration for ~28M workers. Also excited that they’re making the dataset public. Open data is the way! Paper here: ssrn.com/abstract=510...
fascinating visualizations here. they linked online employee profiles to voter registration databases -- you can search just for universities, and you can find your own. I saw to my considerable surprise that the College of Engineering skews further left than UM as a whole.
VRscores Data Visualization
Explore the political composition of over 280,000 American organizations with an interactive visualization tool.
vrscores.org
April 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
fascinating visualizations here. they linked online employee profiles to voter registration databases -- you can search just for universities, and you can find your own. I saw to my considerable surprise that the College of Engineering skews further left than UM as a whole.
Just now noticing a very interesting write-up by
@ryanburge.bsky.social which makes use of our #VRscores data from the Politics at Work project with
Justin Frake and @reubenhurst.bsky.social. Tremendously exciting to see how people are making use of the data to uncover new insights!
@ryanburge.bsky.social which makes use of our #VRscores data from the Politics at Work project with
Justin Frake and @reubenhurst.bsky.social. Tremendously exciting to see how people are making use of the data to uncover new insights!
The Most Republican Jobs in America? Start with the Church.
An incredibly new databases opens up all kinds of possibilities for analysis.
www.graphsaboutreligion.com
March 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Just now noticing a very interesting write-up by
@ryanburge.bsky.social which makes use of our #VRscores data from the Politics at Work project with
Justin Frake and @reubenhurst.bsky.social. Tremendously exciting to see how people are making use of the data to uncover new insights!
@ryanburge.bsky.social which makes use of our #VRscores data from the Politics at Work project with
Justin Frake and @reubenhurst.bsky.social. Tremendously exciting to see how people are making use of the data to uncover new insights!
left, Christians lean slightly more right (15% vs. -50% (Jews) and -65% (Muslims)).
• Right-leaning Protestant groups, in descending percentages were Nondenominational, Baptist, Unknown, Pentecostal, and bringing up the rear, Lutherans. Every other group leaned left.
• Right-leaning Protestant groups, in descending percentages were Nondenominational, Baptist, Unknown, Pentecostal, and bringing up the rear, Lutherans. Every other group leaned left.
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
left, Christians lean slightly more right (15% vs. -50% (Jews) and -65% (Muslims)).
• Right-leaning Protestant groups, in descending percentages were Nondenominational, Baptist, Unknown, Pentecostal, and bringing up the rear, Lutherans. Every other group leaned left.
• Right-leaning Protestant groups, in descending percentages were Nondenominational, Baptist, Unknown, Pentecostal, and bringing up the rear, Lutherans. Every other group leaned left.
I think best is to go to the website and click through and get a feel for it that way vrscores.org/data-visuali...
VRscores Data Visualization
Explore the political composition of over 280,000 American organizations with an interactive visualization tool.
vrscores.org
April 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I think best is to go to the website and click through and get a feel for it that way vrscores.org/data-visuali...
13/ The best part? We're in the process of making these data publicly accessible for researchers. While we finalize the public data release, we've created a website vrscores.org where you can explore and visualize the data (it's still WIP, so let us know if you find anything odd!)
VRscores
vrscores.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
13/ The best part? We're in the process of making these data publicly accessible for researchers. While we finalize the public data release, we've created a website vrscores.org where you can explore and visualize the data (it's still WIP, so let us know if you find anything odd!)
Our accompanying working paper is here. We'd love it if you could read it and would be grateful for any thoughts, comments, or questions!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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VRscores: A New Measure and Dataset of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations
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A growing literature explores how workers’ personal politics shape organizational outcomes. <span>Prior research has typically measured employees’ p
papers.ssrn.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Our accompanying working paper is here. We'd love it if you could read it and would be grateful for any thoughts, comments, or questions!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#politics #work #industry
'The dataset covers 2012 through 2024 and brings together data on 534,000 employers and 24.5 million workers by linking U.S. voter registrations to electronically available worker profiles.'
www.newswise.com/articles/new...
'The dataset covers 2012 through 2024 and brings together data on 534,000 employers and 24.5 million workers by linking U.S. voter registrations to electronically available worker profiles.'
www.newswise.com/articles/new...
New Database Maps the Politics of America’s Workplaces | Newswise
VRscores, a public database that links voter registrations to 24.5 million U.S. workers, reveals partisan leanings across employers and suggests workplaces may foster sustained interaction between Dem...
www.newswise.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
#politics #work #industry
'The dataset covers 2012 through 2024 and brings together data on 534,000 employers and 24.5 million workers by linking U.S. voter registrations to electronically available worker profiles.'
www.newswise.com/articles/new...
'The dataset covers 2012 through 2024 and brings together data on 534,000 employers and 24.5 million workers by linking U.S. voter registrations to electronically available worker profiles.'
www.newswise.com/articles/new...