Data For Friends

MAINE -- 1998 - 2010 (12 May 2012)
MAINE_HL01013E10.DAT -- Maine State Legislature DW-NOMINATE one dimensional Legislator Coordinates for 1998 - 2010 Time Period (1961 total)
MAINE_HC01013E10.DAT -- Maine State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates for 1998 - 2010 Time Period (3,604 total)
MAINE_HL01013D20.DAT -- Maine State Legislature DW-NOMINATE two dimensional Legislator Coordinates for 1998 - 2010 Time Period (1961 total)
MAINE_HC01013D20.DAT -- Maine State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates for 1998 - 2010 Time Period (3,604 total)

Stanford Talk (8 March 2012)
PowerPoint Presentation
House and Senate DW-NOMINATE QuickTime Movie (through 1st session of the 112th Congress

MAINE -- 1979 - 2009 (4 March 2012)
MAINE_HL01007B10.DAT -- Maine State Legislature DW-NOMINATE one dimensional Legislator Coordinates for 1997 - 2009 Time Period (1062 total)
MAINE_HC01007B10.DAT -- Maine State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates for 1997 - 2009 Time Period (3,604 total)
MAINE_HL01007B21.DAT -- Maine State Legislature DW-NOMINATE two dimensional Legislator Coordinates for 1997 - 2009 Time Period (1062 total)
MAINE_HC01007B21.DAT -- Maine State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates for 1997 - 2009 Time Period (3,604 total)

ARIZONA -- 1979 - 2010 (18 February 2012)
ARIZONA_HL01014B10.DAT -- Arizona State Legislature DW-NOMINATE one dimensional Legislator Coordinates for 1997 - 2010 Time Period (841 total)
ARIZONA_HC01014B10.DAT -- Arizona State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates for 1997 - 2010 Time Period (4,836 total)
ARIZONA_HL01014B21.DAT -- Arizona State Legislature DW-NOMINATE two dimensional Legislator Coordinates for 1997 - 2010 Time Period (841 total)
ARIZONA_HC01014B21.DAT -- Arizona State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates for 1997 - 2010 Time Period (4,836 total)
Arizona DW-NOMINATE QuickTime Movie

HOUSE AND SENATE PRELIMINARY OUTPUT: DW-NOMINATE 1st TO 112th CONGRESSES -- (6 February 2012 -- Updated 16 March 2012)
HL01112C21.DAT -- Legislator Output File for Houses 1 - 112 (through 2011)
HL01112C21.XLS -- Legislator Output File for Houses 1 - 112 (Excel Spreadsheet, through 2011)
SL01112B21.DAT -- Legislator Output File for Senates 1 - 112 (through 2011)
SL01112B21.XLS -- Legislator Output File for Senates 1 - 112 (Excel Spreadsheet, through 2011)
HANDSL01112B20.DAT -- Legislator Output File for Houses and Senates 1 - 112 (Common Space DW-NOMINATE Scaling, through 2011)
HANDSL01112B20.XLS -- Legislator Output File for Houses and Senates 1 - 112 (Excel Spreadsheet, Common Space DW-NOMINATE Scaling, through 2011)

The format is:
 1.  Congress Number
 2.  ICPSR ID Number (as corrected by Poole and Rosenthal)
 3.  State Code:  2 digit ICPSR State Code
 4.  Congressional District Number (0 if Senate)
 5.  Name of State
 6.  Party Code:  100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.DAT for a full set of codes of minor and historical parties)
 7.  Name of Member
 8.  DW-NOMINATE 1st Dimension
 9.  DW-NOMINATE 2nd Dimension
10.  Log-Likelihood
11.  Total Number of Choices
12.  Number Voting Errors
13.  Geometric Mean Probability

HOUSE AND SENATE PRELIMINARY OUTPUT: DW-NOMINATE 1st TO 112th CONGRESSES -- (29 January 2012)
HC01112CC21_PRES_PRE.DAT -- Roll Call Output File for Houses 1 - 112 (through 31 December 2011)
SC01112BB21_PRE.DAT -- Roll Call Output File for Senates 1 - 112 (through 31 December 2011)
The format of the roll call files is:
--Line 1--
 1.  Congress Number
 2.  Roll Call Number
 3.  Number of Yeas
 4.  Number of Nays
 5.  Number Correctly Classified
 6.  Predicted Yea/Actual Yea
 7.  Predicted Yea/Actual Nay
 8.  Predicted Nay/Actual Yea
 9.  Predicted Nay/Actual Nay
10.  Proportion Correctly Classified (#9 divided by #4 + #5)
11.  Proportional Reduction in Error (PRE) -- (Min. on RC - Error)/Min. on RC
12.  Geometric Mean Probability
13.  Spread on 1st Dimension    -- if the roll call was not scaled, there
14.  Midpoint on 1st Dimension  -- are 0.000's in all four fields 
15.  Spread on 2nd Dimension    --
16.  Midpoint on 2nd Dimension  --
--Line 2--
 1.  Predicted Yea/Actual Yea -- Jeffersonians/Democrats
 2.  Predicted Yea/Actual Nay
 3.  Predicted Nay/Actual Yea
 4.  Predicted Nay/Actual Nay
--Line 3--
 1.  Predicted Yea/Actual Yea -- Federalists/Whigs/Republicans
 2.  Predicted Yea/Actual Nay
 3.  Predicted Nay/Actual Yea
 4.  Predicted Nay/Actual Nay

ARIZONA -- 1979 - 2010 (20 December 2011)
ARIZONA_HL01014A21.DAT -- Arizona State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Legislator Coordinates for 1997 - 2010 Time Period (842 total)
ARIZONA_HC01014A21.DAT -- Arizona State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates for 1997 - 2010 Time Period (4,856 total)
AZ19972010.TXT -- Arizona State Legislature Roll Calls for 1997 - 2010 Time Period (843 records)
Arizona DW-NOMINATE QuickTime Movie

Georgetown Talk (29 November 2011)
PowerPoint Presentation
House and Senate DW-NOMINATE QuickTime Movie

CPS 2008: Merged Voting and Participation Studies (16 November 2011)
CPS 2008 Merged Voting and Participation Studies

TEXAS -- 1973 - 2011 (16 October 2011)
TEXAS_HL01020A21.DAT -- Texas State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Legislator Coordinates for 1973 - 2011 Time Period
TEXAS_HC01020A21.DAT -- Texas State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates for 1973 - 2011 Time Period
TEXAS_House_1973_2011.MOV -- Texas State Legislature QuickTime Movie for 1973 - 2011 Time Period

ABRAJANO-POOLE Method of Linking Surveys Using Affective “Signatures” -- (25 September 2011)
  1. FIX_10.FOR -- FORTRAN program that reads Thermometers from the 2004 NES file and the Annenberg 2004 Election File and writes the ten common thermometers to disk. The program reads:
    The program writes these files:
  2. MATCH_RESP_2008.FOR -- FORTRAN program that reads ELEC2004_ONLY_10.DAT and ANNENBERG_ONLY_10.DAT and finds the Respondent in the 2004 NES that has the closest match (at least 4 common thermometers, mean of absolute differences) to the Respondent in the 2004 Annenberg survey.
    The program writes these files:
HOUSE AND SENATE PRELIMINARY OUTPUT: DW-NOMINATE 1st TO 112th CONGRESSES -- (13 September 2011)
HANDSL01112C20_DS.DAT -- Legislator Output File for Houses and Senates 1 - 112 (Common Space DW-NOMINATE Scaling, Debt Deal Votes Omitted)

The format is:
 1.  Congress Number
 2.  ICPSR ID Number (as corrected by Poole and Rosenthal)
 3.  State Code:  2 digit ICPSR State Code
 4.  Congressional District Number (0 if Senate)
 5.  Name of State
 6.  Party Code:  100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.DAT for a full set of codes of minor and historical parties)
 7.  Name of Member
 8.  DW-NOMINATE 1st Dimension
 9.  DW-NOMINATE 2nd Dimension
10.  Log-Likelihood
11.  Total Number of Choices
12.  Number Voting Errors
13.  Geometric Mean Probability
HOUSE AND SENATE PRELIMINARY OUTPUT: DW-NOMINATE 1st TO 112th CONGRESSES -- (9 August 2011)
HL01112C21.DAT -- Legislator Output File for Houses 1 - 112
SL01112C21.DAT -- Legislator Output File for Senates 1 - 112
HANDSL01112C21.DAT -- Legislator Output File for Houses and Senates 1 - 112 (Common Space DW-NOMINATE Scaling)

The format is:
 1.  Congress Number
 2.  ICPSR ID Number (as corrected by Poole and Rosenthal)
 3.  State Code:  2 digit ICPSR State Code
 4.  Congressional District Number (0 if Senate)
 5.  Name of State
 6.  Party Code:  100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.DAT for a full set of codes of minor and historical parties)
 7.  Name of Member
 8.  DW-NOMINATE 1st Dimension
 9.  DW-NOMINATE 2nd Dimension
10.  Log-Likelihood
11.  Total Number of Choices
12.  Number Voting Errors
13.  Geometric Mean Probability
DW-NOMINATE PRELIMINARY OUTPUT -- (19 January 2011)
HL01111EE21_PRES.DAT -- Legislator Output File for Houses 1 - 111
HC01111EE21_PRES_PRE_DATES.DAT -- Roll Call Output File for Houses 1 - 111
SL01111EE21.DAT -- Legislator Output File for Senates 1 - 111
SC01111EE21_PRE_DATES.DAT -- Roll Call Output File for Senates 1 - 111

DW-NOMINATE SENATE OUTPUT FOR SUPERCOMPUTER -- (2 January 2011)
DW-NOMINATE.FOR -- DW-NOMINATE FORTRAN program
DW-NOMINATE HOUSE OUTPUT FOR SUPERCOMPUTER -- (2 January 2011)
DW-NOMINATE.FOR -- DW-NOMINATE FORTRAN program
DW-NOMINATE HOUSE AND SENATE OUTPUT FOR SUPERCOMPUTER -- (3 January 2011)
DW-NOMINATE.FOR -- DW-NOMINATE FORTRAN program
DW-NOMINATE OUTPUT BY CLAUSEN CODES -- (updated, 28 November 2010)
HL01111_CLAUSEN.DTA -- Stata File, Legislator Coordinates House, All Votes, Category 5, Categories 1,2,3,4,6
SL01111_CLAUSEN.DTA -- Stata File, Legislator Coordinates Senate, All Votes, Category 5, Categories 1,2,3,4,6

SWISS DW-NOMINATE 2 - 15 (19 September 2010)
SWISS_HL0215B21.DAT -- DW-NOMINATE Legislator Coordinates (2-dimension linear model) for 2nd through 15th Years (2,828 legislators)
SWISS_HC0215B21.DAT -- DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates (2-dimension linear model) for 2nd through 15th Years (12,519 Roll Calls)
SWISS_2_15.ORD -- Roll Call Matrices 2nd through 15th Combined in one file (ASCII encoding, 457 Unique by 12,519 records)
SWISS_H0215.VT3 -- Roll Call Matrices 2nd through 15th Years stacked in one file with legislators removed who did not vote 20 or more times on non-unanimous roll calls (ASCII encoding, 2,828 records -- Used in DW-NOMINATE Scaling)
SWISS_HT0215.VT3 -- Transposed Roll Call Matrices 2nd through 15th Years combined in one file (ASCII encoding, (12,519 records -- Used in DW-NOMINATE Scaling)

FEINGOLD VOTING ERRORS 103rd to 111th Senates (30 August 2010)
The following file shows every roll call where Feingold makes a voting "error" for the period of his service in the Senate. The errors are incorrectly classified roll call choices from DW-NOMINATE.
The format is:
 1.  Congress Number
 2.  ICPSR ID Number (as corrected by Poole and Rosenthal)
 3.  State Code:  2 digit ICPSR State Code.
 4.  Congressional District Number (0 if Senate)
 5.  State Name
 6.  Party Code:  100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.DAT)
 7.  Name of Member
 8.  Roll Call Number
 9.  Actual Choice: 1=Yea, 6=Nay
10.  Predicted Choice: 1=Yea, 6=Nay
11.  Number Yeas
12.  Number Nays
13.  Month of Roll Call
14.  Day of Roll Call
15.  Year of Roll Call
16.  Thumbnail Description of Roll Call
FEINGOLD_ERRORS_ALL.DAT -- 750 "errors" by Feingold of 4,873 votes cast from the 103rd to the 111th Senates (December 2009)

SWISS DW-NOMINATE 45-48 (10 August 2010)
SWISS_HL0104A20.DAT -- DW-NOMINATE Legislator Coordinates (2-dimension constant model) for 45th through 48th Legislatures (863 legislators)
SWISS_HC0104A20.DAT -- DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates (2-dimension constant model) for 45th through 48th Legislatures (12,610 Roll Calls)
SWISS_45_46_47_48.TXT -- Roll Call Matrices 45th through 48th Legislatures stacked in one file (ASCII encoding, (871 records)
SWISS4548.ORD -- Roll Call Matrices 45th through 48th Legislatures combined into one file (ASCII encoding, (457 Unique Legislators by 12,610 roll calls)
SWISS_H0104.VT3 -- Roll Call Matrices 45th through 48th Legislatures stacked in one file with legislators removed who did not vote 20 or more times on non-unanimous roll calls (ASCII encoding, (863 records -- Used in DW-NOMINATE Scaling)
SWISS_HT0104.VT3 -- Transposed Roll Call Matrices 45th through 48th combined in one file (ASCII encoding, (12,610 records -- Used in DW-NOMINATE Scaling)

ISSUE CODES HOUSES/SENATES 84-104 (21 July 2010)
H84_104_ISSUES.TXT -- 15,867 roll calls from the 84th to the 104th Houses coded by issue (3 lines per roll call)
S84_104_ISSUES.TXT -- 15,280 roll calls from the 84th to the 104th Senates coded by issue (3 lines per roll call)


MAJORITY PARTY ROLLS -- HOUSE 83-108 (11 June 2010)
The following file shows every roll call in the House where a majority of the minority party voted with a minority of the majority party to pass a motion (bills, amendments, etc.). Final passage votes are denoted with an "F". Those votes where the Majority leader voted on the winning side against the majority of his own party are denoted with an "L". Hence, an "FL" is a case where the Majority leader votes with the winning side on a final passage vote but a majority of his own party votes against passage. The format is:
 1.  Congress Number
 2.  Number of Roll Call -- Sequential 
 3.  CQ Number of Roll Call
 4.  Number Yeas
 5.  Number Nays
 6.  Month of Roll Call
 7.  Day of Roll Call
 8.  Year of Roll Call
 9.  Number Democrats Voting Yea
10.  Number Democrats Voting Nay
11.  Number Republicans Voting Yea
12.  Number Republicans Voting Nay
13.  Number Correctly Classified  (DW-NOMINATE)
14.  Predicted Yea/Actual Yea
15.  Predicted Yea/Actual Nay
16.  Predicted Nay/Actual Yea
17.  Predicted Nay/Actual Nay
18.  Final Passage Vote = F
19.  Majority Leader Voting With Majority = L
HOUSE_ROLLS_83-108.DAT -- 1,040 roll calls from the 83rd to the 108th Houses

PERCENT VOTING ON THE WINNING SIDE BY MEMBER -- HOUSES/SENATES 1-111
The following two files show the percentage of roll calls -- all roll calls and non-unanimous roll calls -- that the member was on the winning side. The format is:
 1.  Congress Number
 2.  ICPSR ID Number:  5 digit code assigned by the ICPSR as 
                       corrected by Howard Rosenthal and myself.
 3.  State Code:  2 digit ICPSR State Code.
 4.  Congressional District Number (0 if Senate)
 5.  State Name
 6.  Party Code:  100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.DAT)
 7.  Name
 8.  Number Roll Calls Voted
 9.  Number of Times on the Winning Side
10.  Percent on the Winning Side  (-99.000 Missing)
11.  Number Non-Unanimous Roll Calls Voted
12.  Number of Times on the Winning Side Non-Unanimous Roll Calls
13.  Percent on the Winning Side Non-Unanimous Roll Calls (-99.000 Missing)
WINNING_SIDE_HOUSE_1-111.DAT -- 37,440 Representatives Houses 1 to 111 (2009) [30 May 2010]
WINNING_SIDE_SENATE_1-111.DAT -- 9,200 Senators Senates 1 - 111 (2009) [30 May 2010]

OPTIMAL CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM FOR ANALYZING ROLL CALLS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE SIMULTANEOUSLY
SUPEROC.FOR -- FORTRAN program that performs Optimal Classification on the House and Senate Simultaneously. Set up to do Congresses 1 - 111. See The Optimal Classification Scores Page for a description of the output files.
SUPEROC.EXE -- Compiled FORTRAN program. This EXE should run on any WINDOWS XP through WINDOWS 7 from the command prompt.

Cutting Line Angle Files for the House and Senate
See DW-NOMINATE Data Page for the format of these files. The cutting line angle in degrees is tacked onto the end of each line. Note that this angle can be positive or negative!
HC01111_CUT33_PRE_DATES_2009.DAT (House Data, 26 May 2010)
SC01111_CUT33_PRE_DATES_2009.DAT (Senate Data, 26 May 2010)

CONSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NATIONS (David Law) (20 April 2010)
Images of Constitutional Characteristics (as "roll calls") from Optimal Classification
DAVID_LAW.ORD -- Constitutions Data on 60 characteristics for 208 Countries 1946-2006. "1" = Characteristic present, "6" = Characteristic absent, "9" = missing data
CONSTITUTIONS_1946_2006_Z.DAT -- OC output for 60 characteristics as "roll calls".
CONSTITUTIONS_1946_2006_X.DAT -- OC output for 8,155 nation-years as "legislators" (each nation in each year is a separate "legislator").
CONSTITUTIONS_PERF21.DAT -- OC Output File -- shows iteration record
CONSTITUTIONS_PERF23.DAT -- OC Output File -- shows eigenvalues and iteration record
CONSTITUTIONS_PERF25.DAT -- OC Output File -- contains the "X" and "Z" files above
plot_oc_output_X_and_Z_Constitutions.r -- R program that reads "X" and "Z" files above and produces the plot below



TEXAS -- 1973 - 2009 (11 February 2010)
TEXAS_HL01019A21.DAT -- Texas State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Legislator Coordinates for 1973 - 2009 Time Period
TEXAS_HC01019A21.DAT -- Texas State Legislature DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates for 1973 - 2009 Time Period
TEXAS_House_1973_2009.MOV -- Texas State Legislature QuickTime Movie for 1973 - 2009 Time Period

CENTER DOTS FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS AND STATES (OLD VOTEVIEW): 1th to 100th Congresses:
housecrr.zip -- House Coordinate Files With CD Center Dots for old VOTEVIEW PROGRAM
senatecrr.zip -- Senate Coordinate Files With CD Center Dots for old VOTEVIEW PROGRAM
Old FORTRAN program that reads the *.crr files and shows the center dots for all the major cities

ISSUE CODES House and Senate 107th to 110th Congresses:
Issues_Senate_107-110.dat -- Senate Issue codes all votes
Issues_House_107-110.dat -- House Issue codes all votes

DW-NOMINATE 83-108 on All Votes, Non-Procedural Votes, and Procedural Votes Only, using Rohde Codes -- 28 January 2010
house83108_all_non_proced.dta -- Stata 8 File with DW-NOMINATE House Legislators Coordinates for All Roll Calls, Non-Procedural Roll Calls, and Procedural Roll Calls Only (using Rohde Codes)

Polarization Graphs of All 3 sets of Coordinates:


Audio for POLI 100B Congress Course (latest post, 3 March 2010):
Day Twenty-Two, 3 March 2010.mp3
Day Twenty-One, 1 March 2010.mp3
Day Twenty, 26 February 2010.mp3
Day Eighteen, 22 February 2010.mp3
Day Seventeen, 19 February 2010.mp3
Day Thirteen, 8 February 2010.mp3
Day Twelve, 5 February 2010.mp3
Day Eleven, 3 February 2010.mp3
Day Ten, 1 February 2010.mp3
Day Nine, 29 January 2010.mp3
Day Eight, 27 January 2010.mp3
Day Six, 20 January 2010.mp3
Day Five, 15 January 2010.mp3
Day Four, 13 January 2010.mp3
Day Three, 11 January 2010.mp3
Day Two, 8 January 2010.mp3
Day One, 6 January 2010.mp3

Audio for POLI 100K Railroads Course (latest post, 5 March 2010):
Day Twenty-Three, 5 March 2010.mp3
Day Twenty-Two, 3 March 2010.mp3
Day Twenty-One, 1 March 2010.mp3
Day Twenty, 26 February 2010.mp3
Day Nineteen, 24 February 2010.mp3
Day Eighteen, 22 February 2010.mp3
Day Fourteen, 10 February 2010.mp3
Day Twelve, 5 February 2010.mp3
Day Eleven, 3 February 2010.mp3
Day Ten, 1 February 2010.mp3
Day Nine, 29 January 2010.mp3
Day Eight, 27 January 2010.mp3
Day Seven, 25 January 2010.mp3
Day Six, 20 January 2010.mp3
Day Five, 15 January 2010.mp3
Day Four, 13 January 2010.mp3
Day Three, 11 January 2010.mp3
Day Two, 8 January 2010.mp3
Day One, 6 January 2010.mp3

Number of Congresses Served in by Each Member of the Senate -- 1789 - 2008 -- 20 November 2009
SENATE_CONGRESSES.DTA -- STATA 8 Data File with 1830 records, one for each unique member of the Senate (1789 - 2008) including party switchers SENATE_CONGRESSES.XLS -- Excel Spreadsheet Data File with 1830 records, one for each unique member of the Senate (1789 - 2008) including party switchers. Same format as the STATA 8 Data File

DW-NOMINATE OUTPUT BY ROHDE CODES -- (25 October 2009)
HL01110D21_SESSIONALL83108.DAT -- LEGISLATOR COORDINATES, ALL VOTES
HC01110D21_SESSIONALL83108.DAT -- ROLL CALL COORDINATES, ALL VOTES
HL01110D21_SESSIONAMEND83108.DAT -- LEGISLATOR COORDINATES, AMENDMENT VOTES
HC01110D21_SESSIONAMEND83108.DAT -- ROLL CALL COORDINATES, AMENDMENT VOTES
HL01110D21_SESSIONPROCED83108.DAT -- LEGISLATOR COORDINATES, PROCEDURAL VOTES
HC01110D21_SESSIONPROCED83108.DAT -- ROLL CALL COORDINATES, PROCEDURAL VOTES
HL01110D21_SESSIONFINAL83108.DAT -- LEGISLATOR COORDINATES, FINAL VOTES
HC01110D21_SESSIONFINAL83108.DAT -- ROLL CALL COORDINATES, FINAL VOTES

BLACKBOX.EXE -- (14 October 2009)
BLACKBOX.EXE -- BLACKBOX.FOR Compiled Lahey Compiler

Example of Roll Call Data by Session/Year for DW-NOMINATE -- Texas 1995 - 2007 (5 October 2009)
TX19952007.ORD -- Texas State Legislature Roll Call Data stacked by session for 1995 - 2007 Time Period

Audio for POLI 100C Course (latest post, 4 December 2009):
Day Twenty-Seven 4 December 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for Twenty Seventh class -- 70meg)
Day Twenty-Six 2 December 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for Twenty Sixth class -- 67meg)
Day Twenty-Five 30 November 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for Twenty Fifth class -- 70meg)
Day Twenty-Four 25 November 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for Twenty Fourth class -- 70meg)
Day Twenty-Three 23 November 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for Twenty Third class -- 59meg)
Day Twenty-Two 20 November 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for Twenty Second class -- 41meg)
Day Twenty-One 18 November 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for Twenty First class -- 69meg)
Day Twenty 16 November 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for Twentieth class -- 70meg)
Day Sixteen 2 November 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for Sixteenth class -- 69meg)
Day Fifteen 28 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for Fifteenth class -- 69meg)
Day Fourteen 26 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for Fourteenth class -- 67meg)
Day Thirteen 23 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for thirteenth class -- 65meg)
Day Twelve 21 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for twelfth class -- 70meg)
Day Eleven 19 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for eleventh class -- 64meg)
Day Ten 16 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for tenth class -- 70meg)
Day Nine 14 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for ninth class -- 66meg)
Day Eight 12 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for eighth class -- 65meg)
Day Seven 9 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for seventh class -- 67meg)
Day Six 7 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for sixth class -- 66meg)
Day Five 5 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for fifth class -- 67meg)
Day Four 2 October 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for fourth class -- 68meg)
Day Three 30 September 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for third class -- 69meg)
Day Two 28 September 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for second class -- 72meg)
Day One 25 September 2009.mp3 (MP3 file for first class -- 61meg)

Files for Polarization Talk (14 September 2009):
HS01_111_September_2009.mov -- House and Senate DW-NOMINATE Animation for Congresses 1 - 111 (458meg)
PowerPoint Presentation on Polarization -- (2.6Meg)

Files for JSS Article (8 September 2009):
wnominate.zip -- All Latex and associated files for JSS Article by Carroll, Lo, Lewis, and Poole (8 September 2009)

QUADRATIC-NORMAL Scaling Program with Input and Output Files (18 June 2009):
QUADMD00.for -- FORTRAN Source Code for Quadratic-Normal Scaling Program (18 June 2009)
QUADMD00.exe -- WINDOWS Executable for Quadratic-Normal Scaling Program (18 June 2009)

DW-NOMINATE Scaling of Roll Call Vote Categories From Rohde Data House and Senate, includes all roll calls, amendments, procedural, and final passage roll calls for the 83rd to the 108th Houses and Senates (17 June 2009):
Senate_83108_CATS.dta -- STATA file of Senate legislator coordinates (20 May 2007)
House_83108_CATS.dta -- STATA file of House legislator coordinates (20 May 2007)

PAC-NOMINATE Directory from 1992 (17 June 2009):
PACNOM_1992.zip -- ZIP file of 1992 directory containing the PAC-NOMINATE research as of October 1992 (17 June 2009)

BLACKBOX_BOOTSTRAP.FOR NES 1992 Example (2 June 2009):
Blackbox_bootstrap.for -- FORTRAN Source Code for Bootstrap Program (3 June 2009)
Blackbox_bootstrap.exe -- WINDOWS Executable for Bootstrap Program (3 June 2009)
BLACKBOX_ALL.F95 examples (27 May 2009):
Blackbox_all_1980_issues.f95 -- FORTRAN 95 Source Code for 1980 Issue Scales Example Blackbox_all_1980_LC.f95 -- FORTRAN 95 Source Code for 1980 Liberal-Conservative 7-Point Scale Example (BLACKBOX_TRANSPOSE.FOR)
California Roll Call Scaling for 2003-04.
WNOMINATE_CA_03_04.R -- R program that analyzes California roll call data (20 May 2009)
CA03-04VOTES.ORD -- California data in *.ORD format
WNOMTEST_X_03_04.TXT -- Formatted Legislator Output
WNOM_CA_X.TXT -- Unformatted Legislator Output
WNOM_CA_Z.TXT -- Unformatted Roll Call Output

DW-NOMINATE Parametric Bootstrap trials for the House -- HOUSE_BOOTSTRAP_TRIALS_2008.DAT. There are 1,026 trials stacked on top of one another. This is the file used to obtain the standard errors posted on the DW-NOMINATE data page. This file is very large -- 37,129,914 records and 2.4 gigabytes. The format of the file is (I2,I5,1X,I4,I6,I3,I2,1X,7A1,1X,I4,1X,11A1,2F7.3) where the variables are: 1) a two digit place-holder; 2) Trial number (1 - 1026); 3) Congress Number (1 - 110); 4) ICPSR ID number (as corrected by Poole-Rosenthal); 5) ICPSR State Code; 6) Congressional District (0 if Senate); 7) State Name; 8) Party Code 100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.DAT); 9) Name of Member; 10) DW-NOMINATE 1st dimension; 11) DW-NOMINATE 2nd dimension.
HOUSE_BOOTSTRAP_TRIALS_2008.DAT (28 March 2009)

DW-NOMINATE Parametric Bootstrap trials for the Senate -- SENATE_BOOTSTRAP_TRIALS_2008.DAT. There are 999 trials stacked on top of one another. This is the file used to obtain the standard errors posted on the DW-NOMINATE data page. This file is very large -- 8,738,253 records and 546 megabytes. The format of the file is the same as above.
SENATE_BOOTSTRAP_TRIALS_2008.DAT (28 March 2009)

Zip File containing the two Cutting Point Optimal Classification -- PERF2PT.FOR -- program with input and output files:
PERF2PT.ZIP ( 4 March 2009)

Actual and Predicted Choices DW-NOMINATE Scaling of Senates 101 - 110:
Senate Choices: SENATE_101_110_ERRORS.DAT (536,348 Records, 28.5Meg, 2 March 2009)

Actual and Predicted Choices DW-NOMINATE Scaling of Houses 101 - 110:
House Choices: HOUSE_101_110_ERRORS.DAT (3,861,649 Records, 204.7Meg, 2 March 2009)

Actual and Predicted Choices DW-NOMINATE Scaling of Senates 1 - 110:
Senate Choices: SENATE_1_110_ERRORS.DAT (2,947,432 Records, 156Meg, 25 February 2009)

Actual and Predicted Choices DW-NOMINATE Scaling of Houses 1 - 110:
House Choices: HOUSE_1_110_ERRORS.DAT (12,445,385 Records, 660Meg, 25 February 2009)

ONE-CONGRESS-AT-A-TIME DW-NOMINATE (NOKKEN-POOLE) data for Houses 1 - 110:
House Congress by Congress Coordinates: HL01110NP2_2009.DAT (21 February 2009)

ONE-CONGRESS-AT-A-TIME DW-NOMINATE (NOKKEN-POOLE) data for Senates 1 - 110:
Senate Congress by Congress Coordinates: SL01110NP2_2009.DAT (21 February 2009)

DW-NOMINATE Common Space Legislator Coordinate file for Houses and Senates 1 - 110 -- HANDSL01110F20.DAT
House and Senate DW-NOMINATE Common Space Legislator Coordinates (23 December 2008)

DW-NOMINATE Legislator Coordinate file for Senates 1 - 110 -- SL01110C21_NEW.DAT
Senate DW-NOMINATE Legislator Coordinates (20 December 2008)

DW-NOMINATE Legislator Coordinate file for Houses 1 - 110 -- HL01110C21_PRES_NEW.DAT
House DW-NOMINATE Legislator Coordinates (19 December 2008)

Roll Call Vote file for Houses 1 - 110 (1st) -- H01110_PRES_1ST.VOT
House Roll Call Data (16 October 2008)

Correct classifications DW-NOMINATE Congresses 1 - 110; variables: congress; correct classification Joing Scaling; PRE Joint Scaling; correct classification House only Dynamic Scaling; PRE House only Dynamic Scaling; correct classification Senate only Dynamic Scaling; PRE Senate only Dynamic Scaling; correct classification House subset of Joint scaling; correct classification Senate subset of Joint scaling.
Text file with House and Senate Classifications from Joint and Separate scalings (25 June 2008)

Zip file with PERFN.FOR, input and output files -- Machine Independent PERFL_2006.FOR (22 June 2008)

BLACKBOX.FOR
BLACKBOX_TRANSPOSE.FOR

ZIP File With 13th Italian Legislature (10 June 2008) -- With New OC (PERFL_2006.EXE)


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