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2004 PELA Liberal-Conservative Scales.

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

data(colombia)

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

Christopher Hare cdhare@ucdavis.edu

Source

Sebastian Saiegh. 2009. “Recovering a Basic Space from Elite Surveys: Evidence from Latin America.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 34(1): 117-145. doi: 10.3162/036298009787500349

Sebastian Saiegh. 2011. Ruling By Statute: How Uncertainty and Vote-Buying Shape Lawmaking. New York: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511842276

References

John H. Aldrich and Richard D. McKelvey. 1977. “A Method of Scaling with Applications to the 1968 and 1972 Presidential Elections.” American Political Science Review 71(1): 111-130. doi: 10.2307/1956957

David A. Armstrong II, Ryan Bakker, Royce Carroll, Christopher Hare, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. 2021. Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment. 2nd ed. Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Series. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. doi: 10.1201/9781315197609

Thomas R. Palfrey and Keith T. Poole. 1987. “The Relationship between Information, Ideology, and Voting Behavior.” American Journal of Political Science 31(3): 511-530. doi: 10.2307/2111281

Keith T. Poole, Jeffrey B. Lewis, Howard Rosenthal, James Lo, and Royce Carroll. 2016. “Recovering a Basic Space from Issue Scales in R.” Journal of Statistical Software 69(7): 1-21. doi:10.18637/jss.v069.i07

Keith T. Poole. 1998. “Recovering a Basic Space From a Set of Issue Scales.” American Journal of Political Science 42(3): 954-993. doi: 10.2307/2991737

Examples

  ### Loads 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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