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Description & Citation--Study No. 1208

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:1208
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01208
 
Title:Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the United States
 
Principal Investigator(s):William D. Berry, Florida State University
 
  Evan J. Ringquist, Florida State University
 
  Richard C. Fording, University of Kentucky
 
  Russell L. Hanson, Indiana University, Bloomington
 

Scope of Study

Summary:For this article, annual measures of the ideology of a state's citizens and political leaders were created using the roll-call voting scores of state legislatures, the party of the governor, and various assumptions regarding voters and state political elites. In addition to measures reported in the original article for all states for 1960-1993, updated measures through 2004 (for the citizen measure) and 2002 (for the political leaders measure) are included as well. The replication dataset for this study, along with the most recent update of the authors' state ideology measures, are available at the link listed below.
 
Subject Term(s):citizen attitudes, political leaders, state legislatures, state politics
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Data Collection Notes:These data are not available for distribution by ICPSR. Users should consult the Web site listed for details on obtaining the data and documentation.
 

Methodology

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1999-12-10