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In BaM: Functions and Datasets for "Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach"

asap.data.list

Description

The American State Administrator's Project (ASAP) survey asks administrators about the influence of a variety of external political actors including "clientele groups" in their agencies., see page 395.

The variables included in the dataset are:

• contracting scale from 0 : 6 where higher indicates more private contracting within the respondent's agency.

• gov.incluence respondents' assessment of the governor's influence on contracting in their agency.

• leg.influence respondents' assessment of the legislatures' influence on contracting in their agency, ranging from 0 : 21.

• elect.board dichotomous variable coded 1 if appointed by a board, a commission or elected, and 0 otherwise.

• years.tenure number of years that the respondent has worked at their current agency.

• education ordinal variable for level of education possessed by the respondent.

• partisan.ID a 5-point ordinal variable (1-5) for the respondent's partisanship (strong Democrat to strong Republican).

• category categories of agency type.

• med.time whether the respondent spent more or less than the sample median with representatives of interest groups.

• medt.contr interaction variable between med.time and contracting.

• gov.ideology state government ideology from Berry et al. (1998) from 0 to 100.

• lobbyists total state lobbying registrants in 2000-01 from Gray and Lowery (1996, 2001).

• nonprofits provides the total number of nonprofit groups in the respondents' state in the year 2008, divided by 10,000.

Usage

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