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Description & Citation--Study No. 7384

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:7384
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07384
 
Title:British House of Commons Roll Call Data, 1841-1847
 
Principal Investigator(s):William O. Aydelotte
 
Bibliographic Citation:Aydelotte, William O. BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS ROLL CALL DATA, 1841-1847 [Computer file]. Compiled by William O. Aydelotte, University of Iowa, Dept. of History. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 197?.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study investigated the socioeconomic composition of the 1841-1847 British House of Commons and the political behavior of the men who sat in it. For each member of parliament, data were collected on personal background, constituency, political career, social position, and professional and business interests. The information on political behavior includes party affiliation, roll call responses in 186 individual parliamentary votes (called "divisions"), and the parliament members' ranking on 24 cumulative scales derived from voting data to allow generalizations about voting patterns.
 
Subject Term(s):biographical data, British Parliament, career history, constituencies, legislative bodies, legislators, Members of Parliament, nineteenth century, occupation, parliamentary governments, party affiliation, political behavior, political history, roll call data, social status, voting behavior, voting patterns
 
Geographic Coverage:Great Britain, Global
 
Time Period:1841 - 1847
 
Date(s) of Collection:1954
 
Universe:Members of the British House of Commons in the period 1841-1847.
 
Data Type:administrative records data, and roll call voting data
 
Data Collection Notes:The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
 

Methodology

Sample:Although only 658 members of parliament could sit in the House of Commons at one time (656 after the disenfranchisement of Sudbury in 1844), due to turnover the total number of men who sat between 1841-1847 was 815.
 
Data Source:DOD'S PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION, HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, the published division lists of the House of Commons, articles from the printed press, and other published materials.
 

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:1984-05-03
 

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