R/Ideology.R

In polimetrics: R Tools for Political Measures

#' Fording's State Ideology Data
#'
#' This data set comes from Richard C. Fording (\url{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.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 3050 observations and 4 variables.
#' \tabular{ll}{ \cr
#'  state \tab state name \cr
#'  year \tab year measured \cr
#'  c_ideo \tab citizen ideology score \cr
#'  s_ideo \tab state level ideology score \cr
#' }

#'
"Ideology"