Yes this looks like a promising data source. For people who want a taste or were interested in my table there is a similar breakdown at <http://www.umich.edu/~nes/nesguide/toptable/tab9a_1.htm> You will see that it looks as if there is one potential problem though. The data sources on income and wealth usually break things down in decile increments (10%). This is open ended - you can use the data to explore several socio-economic models (including a left oriented one that groups workers vs. profit income) or even create new ones. The NES seems to use a particular and pre-determined grouping of income categories - it forces the data into a "middle class as key" framework. It also means one can't match the political changes to the economic changes that emerge from the income and wealth data sources.
The free download of the data, etc requires SAS or SPSS natch. They also report a smaller data set with a user friendly front end (for sale, or probably in many college libraries) - but it only goes up to 1997. If there is interest and if I can find it I can report back.
But isn't it telling that, even in a group like LBO, none of us have seen any serious paper on how the country as a whole (not just those who protest) are responding politically to neo-liberalism?
Paul
>Any ambitious person willing to have a go at the National Election Studies
>(not Survey), you can download data and codebooks at
><http://www.umich.edu/~nes/>. Fame & fortune guaranteed by publication in LBO.
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>Doug
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