1.  Congress Number
 2.  ICPSR ID Number:  5 digit code assigned by the ICPSR as
                       corrected by Howard Rosenthal and myself.
 3.  State Code:  2 digit ICPSR State Code.
 4.  Congressional District Number (0 if Senate or President)
 5.  State Name
 6.  Party Code:  100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.DAT)
 7.  Name
 8.  1st Dimension Coordinate
 9.  2nd Dimension Coordinate
10.  Log-Likelihood
11.  Number of Votes
12.  Number of Classification Errors
13.  Geometric Mean Probability

The format of the roll call files is:

 1.  Congress Number
 2.  Roll Call Number
 3.  Spread on 1st Dimension    -- if the roll call was not scaled, there
 4.  Midpoint on 1st Dimension  -- are 0.000's in all four fields
 5.  Spread on 2nd Dimension    --
 6.  Midpoint on 2nd Dimension  --

 1.  Bootstrap Trial Number
 2.  Congress Number
 3.  ICPSR ID Number:  5 digit code assigned by the ICPSR as 
                       corrected by Howard Rosenthal and myself.
 4.  State Code:  2 digit ICPSR State Code.
 5.  Congressional District Number (0 if Senate)
 6.  State Name
 7.  Party Code:  100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.DAT for a full set of codes of minor and historical parties)
 8.  Name
 9.  1st Dimension Coordinate
10.  2nd Dimension Coordinate (Use 2nd dimension Weight of 0.3988)

The format of the Roll Call Final Coordinates file is:

 1.  Bootstrap Trial
 2.  Congress Number
 3.  Roll Call Number
 4.  Spread on 1st Dimension    -- if the roll call was not scaled, there
 5.  Midpoint on 1st Dimension  -- are 0.000's in all four fields 
 6.  Spread on 2nd Dimension    --  (Use 2nd dimension Weight of 0.3988)
 7.  Midpoint on 2nd Dimension  --  (Use 2nd dimension Weight of 0.3988)

 1.  Bootstrap Trial Number
 2.  Congress Number
 3.  ICPSR ID Number:  5 digit code assigned by the ICPSR as 
                       corrected by Howard Rosenthal and myself.
 4.  State Code:  2 digit ICPSR State Code.
 5.  Congressional District Number (0 if Senate)
 6.  State Name
 7.  Party Code:  100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.DAT for a full set of codes of minor and historical parties)
 8.  Name
 9.  1st Dimension Coordinate
10.  2nd Dimension Coordinate (Use 2nd dimension Weight of 0.4113)

The format of the Roll Call Final Coordinates file is:

 1.  Bootstrap Trial
 2.  Congress Number
 3.  Roll Call Number
 4.  Spread on 1st Dimension    -- if the roll call was not scaled, there
 5.  Midpoint on 1st Dimension  -- are 0.000's in all four fields 
 6.  Spread on 2nd Dimension    --  (Use 2nd dimension Weight of 0.4113)
 7.  Midpoint on 2nd Dimension  --  (Use 2nd dimension Weight of 0.4113)

 1.  Bootstrap Trial Number
 2.  Congress Number
 3.  ICPSR ID Number:  5 digit code assigned by the ICPSR as 
                       corrected by Howard Rosenthal and myself.
 4.  State Code:  2 digit ICPSR State Code.
 5.  Congressional District Number (0 if Senate)
 6.  State Name
 7.  Party Code:  100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.DAT for a full set of codes of minor and historical parties)
 8.  Name
 9.  1st Dimension Coordinate
10.  2nd Dimension Coordinate (Use 2nd dimension Weight of 0.5638)

The format of the Roll Call Final Coordinates file is:

 1.  Bootstrap Trial
 2.  Congress Number
 3.  Roll Call Number
 4.  Spread on 1st Dimension    -- if the roll call was not scaled, there
 5.  Midpoint on 1st Dimension  -- are 0.000's in all four fields 
 6.  Spread on 2nd Dimension    --  (Use 2nd dimension Weight of 0.5638)
 7.  Midpoint on 2nd Dimension  --  (Use 2nd dimension Weight of 0.5638)

 1.  EU Session Number
 2.  ID Number
 3.  Name
 4.  Party Code 1
 5.  Party Code 2
 6   Party Code 3
 7.  1st Dimension Coordinate
 8.  2nd Dimension Coordinate
 9.  Log-Likelihood
10.  Number of Votes
11.  Number of Classification Errors
12.  Geometric Mean Probability

The format of the roll call files is:

 1.  EU Session Number
 2.  Roll Call Number
 3.  Spread on 1st Dimension    -- if the roll call was not scaled, there
 4.  Midpoint on 1st Dimension  -- are 0.000's in all four fields 
 5.  Spread on 2nd Dimension    --
 6.  Midpoint on 2nd Dimension  --

1. Download "voteview_303c_setup.exe" and libtiff.dll. Depending upon your version of WINDOWS, Libtiff.dll
may be missing in your operating system. Place Libtiff.dll in the directory:

C:\WINDOWS\System32

or any other directory in your path statement.

2. Download "Houses.zip" and "Senates.zip".

3. Click on voteview_303_setup.exe" and it will self extract the setup files.

4. Click on "setup.exe" to start the installation process.

5. Unzip the House data files to the "House" subdirectory of wherever you installed Voteview. (eg, "c:\Program Files\Voteview for Windows\House\")

6. Unzip the Senate data files to the "Senate" subdirectory of wherever you installed Voteview. (eg, "c:\Program Files\Voteview for Windows\Senate\")

7. Click on the Voteview for Windows icon through the Start menu to run Voteview.

NOMSTART_JLEWIS.DAT -- Start File for Large W-NOMINATE. See:

Old W-NOMINATE Page for details.

          1.  Congress Number 75 - 111
          2.  ICPSR ID Number:  5 digit code assigned by the ICPSR as 
                                corrected by Howard Rosenthal and myself.
          3.  State Code:  2 digit ICPSR State Code (99 if President)
          4.  Congress District Number (Senate and President = 0)
          5.  Name of State
          6.  Party Code:  100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.HTM)
          7.  Name
          8.  1st Dimension Coordinate
          9.  2nd Dimension Coordinate
         10.  Indicator For Chamber
                            0 = House
                            1 = Senate
                            2 = President (83 - 111)

1. FIX_10.FOR -- FORTRAN program that reads Thermometers from the 2004 NES file and the Annenberg 2004 Election File and writes the ten common thermometers to disk. The program reads:
   
   ELEC2004_CLASS_2007.DAT -- File with the thermometers from the 2004 NES Survery
   ANNENBERG2004_ALLTHERMS3.DAT -- File with the thermometers from the 2004 Annenberg Survery
   
   The program writes these files:
   
   ELEC2004_ONLY_10.DAT -- Output File of the 10 Common thermometers from the 2004 NES Survery
   ANNENBERG_ONLY_10.DAT -- Output File of the 10 Common thermometers from the 2004 Annenberg Survery --
   BUSH , KERRY , CHENEY , EDWARDS, NADER , ASHCROFT, LBUSH, BCLINTON, HCLINTON, MCCAIN
2. MATCH_RESP_2008.FOR -- FORTRAN program that reads ELEC2004_ONLY_10.DAT and ANNENBERG_ONLY_10.DAT and finds the Respondent in the 2004 NES that has the closest match (at least 4 common thermometers, mean of absolute differences) to the Respondent in the 2004 Annenberg survey.
   The program writes these files:
   
   ROSETTA.DAT -- Output File of the ID Number from Annenberg and the dual 4-digit ID Numbers from the NES of the matched respondents (n=61,980)
   MARISSA_MATCH.DAT -- Diagnostic File that writes 6 records for every match (n=371,880). The first record shows the Annenber ID number (1100200011 below) and the 10 Thermometers (ignore the block of numbers after the 10 thermometers). The next 5 records show the NES records that best match. The column of "4"s show that the Annenberg respondent only had 4 of the 10 thermometers and then the number after that is the match value (e.g., (15+10)/4=6.25)
   

       0.0599               1100200011   0 70 80888888888888100888888                  100888888888888
       0.0001    4    6.2500   226 290  15 70 70 70 15  0888100 70 60      1   85.0000  15 50 85 85 60
       0.0000    4    7.5000   483 258   0 70 50 85777777 50100 60 50      1   50.0000  50 70 85 85 70
       0.0001    4    7.5000   9191047   0 70 50 50 60 50 50100 85 50      1   40.0000  60 70 50 70 60
       0.0001    4    8.7500    29 526   0 70 60888 40 50 40 85 85888      1   15.0000  85 60 85 70 60
       0.0001    4    9.5000   126 961   0 85 88 70777 40 40 85 85 40      1   15.0000  85 70 60 85 85

   Consequently, the first record in ROSETTA.DAT is: 1100200011 226 290
   

 1.  Congress Number
 2.  Number of Roll Call -- Sequential 
 3.  CQ Number of Roll Call
 4.  Number Yeas
 5.  Number Nays
 6.  Month of Roll Call
 7.  Day of Roll Call
 8.  Year of Roll Call
 9.  Number Democrats Voting Yea
10.  Number Democrats Voting Nay
11.  Number Republicans Voting Yea
12.  Number Republicans Voting Nay
13.  Number Correctly Classified  (DW-NOMINATE)
14.  Predicted Yea/Actual Yea
15.  Predicted Yea/Actual Nay
16.  Predicted Nay/Actual Yea
17.  Predicted Nay/Actual Nay
18.  Final Passage Vote = F
19.  Majority Leader Voting With Majority = L

HC01111D21_PRES_PRE_DATES_2009.DAT -- Input File -- Starting estimates of the House roll call parameters (from DW-NOMINATE).
SC01111C21_PRE_DATES_2009.DAT -- Input File -- Starting estimates of the Senate roll call parameters (from DW-NOMINATE).
HL01111D21_PRES.DAT -- Input File -- Starting estimates of the House legislator parameters (from DW-NOMINATE).
SL01111C21_2009.DAT -- Input File -- Starting estimates of the Senate legislator parameters (from DW-NOMINATE).
STARTS2009.DAT -- Input File -- Starting estimates for the members of the House and Senate sorted by ICPSR ID Number showing the number of terms in both chambers. Coordinates constructed from DW-NOMINATE coordinates
NHOUSE3_2009.NUM -- Input File -- Lists the number of roll calls and legislators in every House 1 - 111
NSENATE3_2009.NUM -- Input File -- Lists the number of roll calls and legislators in every Senate 1 - 111
H01111_PRES_DECEMBER_2009.VT3 -- Input File -- Roll Call Matrix Houses 1 - 111
S01111_DECEMBER_2009.VT3 -- Input File -- Roll Call Matrix Senates 1 - 111

CENTER DOTS FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS AND STATES (OLD VOTEVIEW): 1^th to 100^th Congresses:
housecrr.zip -- House Coordinate Files With CD Center Dots for old VOTEVIEW PROGRAM
senatecrr.zip -- Senate Coordinate Files With CD Center Dots for old VOTEVIEW PROGRAM
Old FORTRAN program that reads the *.crr files and shows the center dots for all the major cities

DW-NOMINATE 83-108 on All Votes, Non-Procedural Votes, and Procedural Votes Only, using Rohde Codes -- 28 January 2010
house83108_all_non_proced.dta -- Stata 8 File with DW-NOMINATE House Legislators Coordinates for All Roll Calls, Non-Procedural Roll Calls, and Procedural Roll Calls Only (using Rohde Codes)

Polarization Graphs of All 3 sets of Coordinates:


Number of Congresses Served in by Each Member of the Senate -- 1789 - 2008 -- 20 November 2009
SENATE_CONGRESSES.DTA -- STATA 8 Data File with 1830 records, one for each unique member of the Senate (1789 - 2008) including party switchers
Log File Showing Stata Variables and Definitions
SENATE_CONGRESSES.XLS -- Excel Spreadsheet Data File with 1830 records, one for each unique member of the Senate (1789 - 2008) including party switchers. Same format as the STATA 8 Data File

DW-NOMINATE OUTPUT BY ROHDE CODES -- (25 October 2009)
HL01110D21_SESSIONALL83108.DAT -- LEGISLATOR COORDINATES, ALL VOTES
HC01110D21_SESSIONALL83108.DAT -- ROLL CALL COORDINATES, ALL VOTES
HL01110D21_SESSIONAMEND83108.DAT -- LEGISLATOR COORDINATES, AMENDMENT VOTES
HC01110D21_SESSIONAMEND83108.DAT -- ROLL CALL COORDINATES, AMENDMENT VOTES
HL01110D21_SESSIONPROCED83108.DAT -- LEGISLATOR COORDINATES, PROCEDURAL VOTES
HC01110D21_SESSIONPROCED83108.DAT -- ROLL CALL COORDINATES, PROCEDURAL VOTES
HL01110D21_SESSIONFINAL83108.DAT -- LEGISLATOR COORDINATES, FINAL VOTES
HC01110D21_SESSIONFINAL83108.DAT -- ROLL CALL COORDINATES, FINAL VOTES

Files for Polarization Talk (14 September 2009):
HS01_111_September_2009.mov -- House and Senate DW-NOMINATE Animation for Congresses 1 - 111 (458meg)
PowerPoint Presentation on Polarization -- (2.6Meg)

QUADRATIC-NORMAL Scaling Program with Input and Output Files (18 June 2009):
QUADMD00.for -- FORTRAN Source Code for Quadratic-Normal Scaling Program (18 June 2009)

readthis.txt -- READTHIS.TXT -- This is a text file that explains the input and output files used by the QUADMD00.FOR program. Read this file before using! (18 June 2009)
Quadstrt.dat -- "Control Card" file for Quardratic-Normal Scaling Program
SEN85KH.ORD -- 85^th Senate Roll Call Data read by QUADMDOO:
Output Files (See READTHIS.TXT):


QUAD0021.DAT
QUAD0023.DAT
QUAD0028.DAT
QUAD0038.DAT
QUAD0048.DAT
QUAD0058.DAT


DW-NOMINATE Scaling of Roll Call Vote Categories From Rohde Data House and Senate, includes all roll calls, amendments, procedural, and final passage roll calls for the 83^rd to the 108^th Houses and Senates (17 June 2009):
Senate_83108_CATS.dta -- STATA file of Senate legislator coordinates (20 May 2007)
House_83108_CATS.dta -- STATA file of House legislator coordinates (20 May 2007)

PAC-NOMINATE Directory from 1992 (17 June 2009):
PACNOM_1992.zip -- ZIP file of 1992 directory containing the PAC-NOMINATE research as of October 1992 (17 June 2009)

BLACKBOX_BOOTSTRAP.FOR NES 1992 Example (2 June 2009):
Blackbox_bootstrap.for -- FORTRAN Source Code for Bootstrap Program (3 June 2009)

Blackbox_bootstrap.dat -- "Control Card" file for BLACKBOX_BOOTSTRAP.FOR, set up for 1992 Issue Scales example in Blackuse.pdf (Tables 2A and 2B), the Appendix to "Estimating a Basic Space From a Set of Issue Scales."(3 June 2009)
NES1992.DAT -- 1992 National Election Study read by BLACKBOX_BOOTSTRAP.

BLACKBOX_ALL.F95 examples (27 May 2009):
Blackbox_all_1980_issues.f95 -- FORTRAN 95 Source Code for 1980 Issue Scales Example
NES1980_SUBSET.DAT -- 1980 NES Data Used in Basic Space Article

Blackbox_all_1980_LC.f95 -- FORTRAN 95 Source Code for 1980 Liberal-Conservative 7-Point Scale Example (BLACKBOX_TRANSPOSE.FOR)
NES1980_SUBSET_2.DAT -- 1980 NES Data Used in Basic Space Transpose Example


Zip File containing the two Cutting Point Optimal Classification -- PERF2PT.FOR -- program with input and output files:
PERF2PT.ZIP ( 4 March 2009)

Zip file with PERFN.FOR, input and output files -- Machine Independent PERFL_2006.FOR (22 June 2008)

BLACKBOX.FOR
BLACKBOX_TRANSPOSE.FOR

ZIP File With 13th Italian Legislature (10 June 2008) -- With New OC (PERFL_2006.EXE)



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