colombia: 2004 PELA Liberal-Conservative Scales.

Description Usage Value Author(s) Source See Also Examples

Description

Liberal-Conservative 10-point scales from the University of Salamanca's Parliamentary Elites of Latin America (PELA) survey. Stored as a matrix of integers. The number 99 is a missing value. These data come from Sebastian Saiegh and are used in the paper and book cited below.

Usage

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Value

The data is formatted as an integer matrix with the following elements.

colombia

matrix, containing reported placements of various stimuli on a 10 point Liberal-Conservative scale:

  • id Respondent ID.

  • party Respondent party.

  • departam Respondent district.

  • entrey Interviewer ID.

  • pl_uribista Placement of “Partido Liberal Uribista” on 10 point scale.

  • pl_oficial Placement of “Partido Liberal Oficial” on 10 point scale.

  • conservator Placement of “Partido Conservador” on 10 point scale.

  • polo Placement of “Polo” on 10 point scale.

  • union_cristiana Placement of “Union Cristiana” on 10 point scale.

  • salvation Placement of “Salvacion” on 10 point scale.

  • urine Placement of Mr. Uribe on 10 point scale.

  • antanas Placement of Mr. Antanas on 10 point scale.

  • gomez Placement of Mr. Gomez on 10 point scale.

  • garzon Placement of Garzon on 10 point scale.

  • holgin Placement of Holguin on 10 point scale.

  • rivera Placement of Rivera on 10 point scale.

  • self Respondent self placement on 10 point scale.

Author(s)

Keith Poole ktpoole@uga.edu

Howard Rosenthal hr31@nyu.edu

Jeffrey Lewis jblewis@ucla.edu

James Lo lojames@usc.edu

Royce Carroll rcarroll@rice.edu

Source

Sebastian Saiegh. 2009. ‘Recovering a Basic Space from Elite Surveys: Evidence from Latin America.’ Legislative Studies Quarterly. 34(1): 117-145.

Sebastian Saiegh. 2011. Ruling By Statute: How Uncertainty and Vote-Buying Shape Lawmaking. New York: Cambridge University Press.

See Also

'aldmck', 'summary.aldmck', 'plot.aldmck', 'plot.cdf'.

Examples

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### Loads and scales the Liberal-Conservative scales from the 2004 PELA survey
data(colombia)
tmp <- colombia[,c(5:8,12:17)]
result <- aldmck(data=tmp, polarity=7, respondent=10, missing=c(99),verbose=TRUE)
summary(result)
plot.cdf(result)

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