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Politics in Canadian Academia

Graphs of political views among academics in Canada

Prepare Data

# devtools::install_github("derekmichaelwright/agData")
library(agData)
# Prep data
myCaption1 <- "www.dblogr.com/ or derekmichaelwright.github.io/dblogr/ | Data: MLI"
myCaption2 <- "www.dblogr.com/ or derekmichaelwright.github.io/dblogr/ | Data: Nakhaie & Adam (2008)"
dd <- read.csv("data_canada_academia.csv") %>%
  mutate(Party = factor(Party, levels = unique(.$Party)),
         Measurement = factor(Measurement, unique(.$Measurement)))

2021

# Plot
mp <- ggplot(dd, aes(x = Party, y = X2021, fill = Measurement)) + 
  geom_col(position = "dodge", color = "black", alpha = 0.7) +
  scale_fill_manual(name = NULL, values = c("darkblue", "steelblue")) +
  theme_agData(legend.position = "bottom") +
  labs(title = "Political Affiliations in Canada - 2021",
       y = "Percent", x = NULL, caption = myCaption1)
ggsave("canada_academia_01.png", mp, width = 6, height = 4)

2000

# Plot
mp <- ggplot(dd, aes(x = Party, y = X2000, fill = Measurement)) + 
  geom_col(position = "dodge", color = "black", alpha = 0.7) +
  scale_fill_manual(name = NULL, values = c("darkblue", "steelblue")) +
  theme_agData(legend.position = "bottom") +
  labs(title = "Political Affiliations in Canada - 2000",
       y = "Percent", x = NULL, caption = myCaption2)
ggsave("canada_academia_02.png", mp, width = 6, height = 4)

1997

# Plot
mp <- ggplot(dd, aes(x = Party, y = X1997, fill = Measurement)) + 
  geom_col(position = "dodge", color = "black", alpha = 0.7) +
  scale_fill_manual(name = NULL, values = c("darkblue", "steelblue")) +
  theme_agData(legend.position = "bottom") +
  labs(title = "Political Affiliations in Canada - 1997",
       y = "Percent", x = NULL, caption = myCaption2)
ggsave("canada_academia_03.png", mp, width = 6, height = 4)

1993

# Plot
mp <- ggplot(dd, aes(x = Party, y = X1993, fill = Measurement)) + 
  geom_col(position = "dodge", color = "black", alpha = 0.7) +
  scale_fill_manual(name = NULL, values = c("darkblue", "steelblue")) +
  theme_agData(legend.position = "bottom") +
  labs(title = "Political Affiliations in Canada - 1993",
       y = "Percent", x = NULL, caption = myCaption2)
ggsave("canada_academia_04.png", mp, width = 6, height = 4)

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