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Data on Campaign Finance from the Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME).

Description

Candidate level data on money raised, spent, and other stuff during political campaigns, from the Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME). The variables are as follows:

• cycle. The election cycle/year, includes: 2012, 2016, 2018.

• name. Name of candidate.

• party. Party of candidate.

• dwnom1. First dimension common-space DW-NOMINATE score. Based on joint scaling of the 1st to the 112th Congresses. More negative = more liberal, more positive = more conservative.

• state. State.

• district. District identifier.

• seat. Senate or House election.

• incumbent. Whether candidate is an incumbent or a challenger.

• gender. Gender of candidate.

• num_distinct_donors. Number of district donors that gave to the candidate in the election cycle.

• total_receipts. Total dollars raised by candidate during an election cycle.

• contribs_from_candidate. Total receipts from candidate contributions.

• total_disbursements. Total campaign disbursements (in dollars) for the given election cycle.

Usage

data(bonica)

Format

A (tibble) data frame with 9,787 rows and 13 variables.

Source

The Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME).

hail2thief/ladata documentation built on Sept. 9, 2024, 1:28 p.m.