fix_bills_refleg: Function to take a data set, a legislator name, a majority...

Description Usage Arguments

Description

Function to take a data set, a legislator name, a majority party, and find bills to fix positions By fixing bills compared to the reference legislator. This type of identification has not performed well so far.

Usage

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fix_bills_refleg(legislator = NULL, party = NULL, vote_data = NULL,
  legislature = NULL)

Arguments

legislator

Character string of the name of the legislator to use as a reference (ideal point fixed at 0)

party

Character string of the majority party in the legislature (will be used to determine reference legislator's ideal points on bills)

vote_data

Data frame with all of the votes for the particular legislature of analysis

party_data

Data frame with all of the party and demographic information for legislators in both legislatures


saudiwin/bawsala documentation built on May 29, 2019, 3:19 p.m.