Why Rich States Aren't Republican

摘要

Many of us discuss elections, often with concepts like red and blue states. Andrew Gelman is a creative Columbia University statistician who joined with four of his former political science students to dig deeper. The most creative analyses in Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State use Gelman's multilevel methods. But the technical background is nearly invisible: Here there are no equations and few numbers-rather, one finds dozens of revealing graphics, all of which are very clear.