Replication data for: Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal (doi:10.7910/DVN/NP9NZO)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/NP9NZO

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2010-02-16

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Jamie L. Carson; Michael H. Crespin; Jeffery A. Jenkins; Ryan J. Vander Wielen, 2010, "Replication data for: Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NP9NZO, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:5:flZQShvobB2JFbHp+W50xw== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/NP9NZO

Authoring Entity:

Jamie L. Carson (Florida International University)

Michael H. Crespin (Michigan State University)

Jeffery A. Jenkins (Northwestern University)

Ryan J. Vander Wielen (Washington University in St. Louis)

Producer:

Political Analysis

Date of Production:

2004

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Distributor:

Murray Research Archive

Date of Deposit:

2010

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NP9NZO

Study Scope

Abstract:

This paper replicates the findings that appeared in the article "Severing the Electoral Connection: Shirking in the Contemporary Congress," published in the American Journal of Political Science (44:316–325), in which Lawrence Rothenberg and Mitchell Sanders incorporated a new research design and, contrary to all previous studies, found evidence of ideological shirking in the U.S. House of Representatives. We investigate the robustness of their results by reestimating their model with Congress-specific fixed effects and find that their results no longer hold.

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Data Access

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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

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Citation

Title:

Jamie L. Carson, Michael H. Crespin, Jeffery A. Jenkins, and Ryan J. Vander Wielen. 2004. "Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal." Political Analysis, 12(1), 176-179. <a href= "http://pan.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/12/2/176" target= "_new">subscribe to Political Analysis to access the full article</a>

Bibliographic Citation:

Jamie L. Carson, Michael H. Crespin, Jeffery A. Jenkins, and Ryan J. Vander Wielen. 2004. "Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal." Political Analysis, 12(1), 176-179. <a href= "http://pan.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/12/2/176" target= "_new">subscribe to Political Analysis to access the full article</a>

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File: jenkins.tab

  • Number of cases: 998

  • No. of variables per record: 14

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

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fourth quarter position (congress of record)

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congress

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years of seniority at beginning of congress

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state district code (icpsr)

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1=retire, 0 otherwise

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1 = pursuing statewide office, 0 otherwise

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Variable Format: numeric

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democratic pres vote in old and new district (1988 race)

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Variable Format: numeric

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previous vote margin

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Variable Format: numeric

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cong== 103.0000

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cong== 104.0000

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exit

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Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

jenkins.rejoinder.web.pdf

Text:

Shirking in the Contemporary Congress Redux

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Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

Jenkins.web.pdf

Text:

The following describes the coding for the dataset we used in “Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal” which replicates and extends Rothenberg and Sanders (2000).1 Also included is a correlation matrix of the independent variables.

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