AlitoConfirmation: US Senate Votes on Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court
In tessington/qsci381: Data used in QSCI 381, University of Washington
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Description
US Senate party affiliatoin and votes on confirming Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court
Format
A data frame with 100 observations on the following 6 variables.
StateState name
SenatorSenator's name
PartyParty affiliation (D=Democrat, R=Republican)
ConfVoteConfirmation vote (Nay=against or Yea=for)
StateOpinionPercentage of state residents supporting the choice
Vote1=for or 0=against
Details
Data from the U.S. Senate vote on January 31, 2006 to confirm Samuel Alito to a position on the Supreme Court.
Source
These numbers are taken from Kastellec, J.P., Lax, J.R., and Phillips, J. (2010), "Public Opinion and Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominees," Journal of Politics, 72(3): 767-84. In this paper the authors used opinion polls and an advanced statistical method known as multilevel regression and poststratification to determine the StateOpinion levels.
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Description Format Details Source
Description
US Senate party affiliatoin and votes on confirming Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court
Format
A data frame with 100 observations on the following 6 variables.
StateState name
SenatorSenator's name
PartyParty affiliation (
D=Democrat,R=Republican)ConfVoteConfirmation vote (
Nay=against orYea=for)StateOpinionPercentage of state residents supporting the choice
Vote1=for or 0=against
Details
Data from the U.S. Senate vote on January 31, 2006 to confirm Samuel Alito to a position on the Supreme Court.
Source
These numbers are taken from Kastellec, J.P., Lax, J.R., and Phillips, J. (2010), "Public Opinion and Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominees," Journal of Politics, 72(3): 767-84. In this paper the authors used opinion polls and an advanced statistical method known as multilevel regression and poststratification to determine the StateOpinion levels.
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