SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2000 Election

This Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political
Science (SETUPS) module is designed as an introduction to the study of
elections, voting behavior, and survey data through the analysis of
the 2000 United States general election. The data are taken from the
AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 2000: PRE- AND POST-ELECTION SURVEY
(ICPSR 3131), conducted by Nancy Burns, Donald R. Kinder, Steven J.
Rosenstone, Virginia Sapiro, and the National Election Studies. A
subset of items was drawn from the full election survey, including
questions on voting behavior, political involvement, media
involvement, candidate images, presidential approval and government
performance, economic conditions, ideology, general spending and
taxation, social welfare policy, foreign policy and defense issues,
social and other domestic issues, civil rights and equality, and
general orientations toward government. A number of social and
demographic characteristics such as gender, race, age, marital status,
education, occupation, income, religious affiliation, region, and
employment status are also included.