ThomasConfirmation: US Senate Votes on Clarence Thomas Confirmation
In tessington/qsci381: Data used in QSCI 381, University of Washington
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Votes in the US Senate on Clarence Thomas nomination for the US Supreme Court
Format
A data frame with 100 observations on the following 6 variables.
StateState name
SenatorSenator name
PartyParty affiliation (D=Democrat or R=Republican)
ConfVoteConfirmation vote (Nay or Yea)
StateOpinionPercentage of state residents supporting the choice
VoteNumeric coding for vote (1=for or 0=against)
Details
Data from the U.S. Senate vote on October 15, 1991 to confirm Clarence Thomas 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
Votes in the US Senate on Clarence Thomas nomination for the US Supreme Court
Format
A data frame with 100 observations on the following 6 variables.
StateState name
SenatorSenator name
PartyParty affiliation (
D=Democrat orR=Republican)ConfVoteConfirmation vote (
NayorYea)StateOpinionPercentage of state residents supporting the choice
VoteNumeric coding for vote (
1=for or0=against)
Details
Data from the U.S. Senate vote on October 15, 1991 to confirm Clarence Thomas 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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