Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data (doi:10.7910/DVN/TJZGPY)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/TJZGPY

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2013-05-20

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Shor, Boris; McCarty, Nolan, 2013, "Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TJZGPY, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:5:txTFz7Zl5bcjDqQsPR/i/w== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/TJZGPY

Authoring Entity:

Shor, Boris (University of Chicago)

McCarty, Nolan (Princeton University)

Date of Production:

2013-05-20

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Distributor:

Shor, Boris

Access Authority:

Boris Shor

Date of Deposit:

2013-05-20

Date of Distribution:

2013-05-20

Holdings Information:

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

Study Scope

Abstract:

The Shor-McCarty state legislator ideology data is being released as an update to the data underlying Shor and McCarty 2011. The new data features over 18,000 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.

Time Period:

1993-2011

Country:

United States

Geographic Coverage:

50 States

Geographic Unit(s):

states

Kind of Data:

Individual legislator level

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Access

Notes:

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

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Related Publications

Citation

Title:

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

Bibliographic Citation:

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

File Description--f2436439

File: state legislator scores may 2013.tab

  • Number of cases: 18189

  • No. of variables per record: 45

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

Notes:

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Individual legislator data

Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

name

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party

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sdistrict

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hdistrict

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st.id

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np.score

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Variable Format: numeric

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senate1993

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senate1994

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senate1995

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senate1996

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senate1997

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senate1998

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senate1999

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senate2000

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senate2001

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senate2002

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senate2003

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senate2004

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senate2005

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senate2006

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senate2007

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senate2008

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senate2009

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senate2010

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Variable Format: numeric

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senate2011

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house1993

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house1994

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Variable Format: numeric

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house1995

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Variable Format: numeric

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house1996

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house1997

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house1998

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house1999

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house2000

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house2001

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house2002

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house2003

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house2004

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house2005

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house2006

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house2007

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house2008

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house2009

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house2010

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house2011

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Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

shor mccarty state state legislator data codebook may 2013.pdf

Text:

Brief codebook

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