Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data, May 2018 update (doi:10.7910/DVN/6QWX7Q)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data, May 2018 update

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/6QWX7Q

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Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2018-05-14

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2

Bibliographic Citation:

Shor, Boris, 2018, "Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data, May 2018 update", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6QWX7Q, Harvard Dataverse, V2

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data, May 2018 update

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/6QWX7Q

Authoring Entity:

Shor, Boris (University of Houston)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Shor, Boris

Depositor:

Shor, Boris

Date of Deposit:

2018-05-14

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6QWX7Q

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences

Abstract:

The Shor-McCarty individual state legislator ideology data is being released as an update to the data underlying Shor and McCarty 2011. The new data features 22,868 unique state legislators. The ideology measures are based on individual-level ideal point estimates described fully in that article. Measures are all in NPAT common ideological space to facilitate explicit comparisons across time and between and within states. The new data spans 1993 through 2016.

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Related Publications

Citation

Title:

Shor, Boris and Nolan McCarty. 2011. "The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures." American Political Science Review 105(3):530-551

Bibliographic Citation:

Shor, Boris and Nolan McCarty. 2011. "The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures." American Political Science Review 105(3):530-551

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shor and mccarty 2011 final apsr.pdf

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shor mccarty 1993-2016 individual legislator data May 2018 release (Updated July 2018).dta

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Fixed strange entries in missing data fields.

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shor mccarty state legislator data codebook may 2018-1.pdf

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