VRscores
A research initiative and open data project aimed at understanding the role of partisanship in the workplace
About the Project
Understanding workforce politics through large-scale data linking employment histories with voter registration records
VRscores introduces a novel approach to measuring workforce politics by linking U.S. voter registrations to online worker profiles. Our full dataset captures the political affiliations of 27.7 million workers across 3.5 million employers—substantially more than traditional donation-based methods.
VRscores are more representative of employees in terms of partisanship, seniority, and industry compared to donation-based measures. Moreover, our analysis reveals that VRscores and donation-based measures are only moderately correlated (r=0.47) and differ in their classification of the political lean of a given workplace for one in four organizations.
To facilitate future research, we provide a public dataset of VRscores for more than 280,000 organizations covering more than 22 million workers, including unique organizational identifiers.