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ABSTRACT
This article provides an introduction to the collection of short articles in recognition of the 25th anniversary of political scientist Michael C. Dawson's pioneering book, Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics (Princeton 1994). Each article in this special Dialogues section uses data from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) to help us understand the ways in which linked fate continues to be instrumental to the discipline of political science and the social sciences more broadly, as well as its limitations to our understanding of group identity in American political behavior and public opinion. This introduction also offers a brief overview of the articles included in this special PGI Dialogues section.
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Notes
1 The CMPS was collected online via two samples. The first sample was made up from a national registered voter database. The second sample was drawn from online panel vendors to ensure that not all respondents were registered voters. In total, 298,159 email addresses were selected and sent invitations to participate in the survey and 29,489 people accepted the invitation and started the survey, for an effective response rate of 9.9%. Among the 29,489 people who started the survey, 11,868 potential respondents were terminated due to quotas being full, which resulted in 17,621 who were eligible to take the survey of which 10,145 completed the full questionnaire for a cooperation rate of 57.6%.