sen111: 111th U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote Matrix

In anominate: Alpha-NOMINATE Ideal Point Estimator

Description

This dataframe contains a matrix of votes cast by U.S. Senators in the 111th Congress. The data are formatted consistent with the rollcall object format in Simon Jackman's pscl package.

Usage

  data(sen111)

Value

The dataframe contains roll call data for all Senators in the 111th Senate. The data is formatted as a rollcall object with the following elements.

votes	data frame, containing all data from the old nom31.dat file about legislators. For a typical W-NOMINATE object run with an ORD file read using readKH, it will contain the following: state State name of legislator. icpsrState ICPSR state code of legislator. cd Congressional District number. icpsrLegis ICPSR code of legislator. party Party of legislator. partyCode ICPSR party code of legislator.
codes	list of four vectors. yea shows the codes in votes that are yea votes, 'nay' shows nay codes, notInLegis shows absences, and missing shows the missing codes.
n	numeric, number of legislators
m	numeric, number of roll calls
legis.data	data frame, containing the following information on legislators: state State name of legislator. icpsrState ICPSR state code of legislator. cd Congressional District number. icpsrLegis ICPSR code of legislator. party Party of legislator. partyCode ICPSR party code of legislator.
vote.data	null, would otherwise be a data frame containing data on the votes.
desc	null, would otherwise be a string describing the data set.
source	string, describing where data set was read from.

Author(s)

Christopher Hare, Royce Carroll, Jeffrey B. Lewis, James Lo, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal

Source

Keith Poole. 2014. 111th Senate Roll Call Vote Data. http://www.k7moa.com/.

References

Carroll, Royce, Jeffrey B. Lewis, James Lo, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal. 2013. “The Structure of Utility in Spatial Models of Voting.” American Journal of Political Science 57(4): 1008–1028.

See Also

'summary.anominate','anominate','densplot.anominate','traceplot.anominate','plot.anominate.

Examples

data(sen111)

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