Ideology: Fording's State Ideology Data

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Description

This data set comes from Richard C. Fording (https://rcfording.com/state-ideology-data/) and used in Berry et al. (1998). The data set includes state ideology data (measured at the state/legislature and citizen levels), for each year between 1960 and 2018. These data will be updated as Fording updates the data.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 3050 observations and 4 variables.

state state name
year year measured
c_ideo citizen ideology score
s_ideo state level ideology score

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