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David Dorn

Notes:
This file indicates the legislators who have ever been affiliated with one of the following three Congressional caucuses that have been linked to the Tea Party movement: Tea Party Caucus (variable "tea"), Liberty Caucus ("liberty") and Freedom Caucus ("freedom"). While these caucuses do not publich official membership lists, Wikipedia collects information on individuals who have self-identified as members or were identified by others as members. We pooled this information from Wikipedia entries in May of 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.

Please cite as source for this file:
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Kaveh Majlesi. "Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure."
American Economic Review, 110(10): 3139-3189, 2020.