Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting: Chapter 6

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Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting

by

Keith T. Poole

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Chapter 6

Figure 6.1: R Program To Illustrate Campbell Party Switch Experiment

S0305_SHIFT_1_DIM.TXT: Shift Distance File for Campbell Party Switch Experiment

Figure 6.2: R Program To Illustrate Position Shift Before an Election

S0305_SHIFT_AT_105_1_DIM.TXT: Shift Distance File for Election Shift Experiment

Figure 6.3: R Program To Illustrate Last Period Shift Experiment

ALL_SHIFT_96_TO_98_2.TXT: Shift Distance File for Last Period Shift Experiment

Figure 6.4: R Program To Illustrate Redistricting Effects

ALL_SHIFT_96_TO_98_2A.TXT: Shift Distance File for Redistricting Shift Experiment

Figure 6.5: R Program To Plot Mean Shift Distances 1789 - 2002

Figure 6.6: R Program To Plot Distribution of Shift Distances for Houses 96 to 98

HOU_BASELINE_ANI4.TXT: Mean Shift Distances File for 1789 - 2002

Figure 6.7: R Program To Plot Distribution of Cutting Lines for the 88th Senate

SC01107A1.DAT: Roll Call Coordinates from DW-NOMINATE

SCODES01106.TXT: Roll Call Issue Codes

Figure 6.8: R Program To Plot OC Coordinates for the 88th Senate With and Without the Civil Rights Act Roll Calls

SEN88_WITH_WITHOUT_CW.TXT: Senator OC Coordinates for the 88th Senate With and Without the Civil Rights Act Roll Calls

Figure 6.9: R Program To Plot DW-NOMINATE Coordinates for the 88th House for the Margins Experiment

HLMARG_CH_6A.TXT: Legislator DW-NOMINATE Coordinates for the 88th House for the Margins Experiment

Figure 6.10: R Program To Plot DW-NOMINATE Coordinates for the 88th House for the No-South Experiment

HL01107_SOUTH_AA.TXT: Legislator DW-NOMINATE Coordinates for the 88th House for the No-South Experiment

Figure 6.11: R Program To Plot 96th House-Senate Interest Group Scaling

HOU_FIG_8p6_PandR.TXT: Legislator and Interest Group Coordinates for the 96th House-Senate Combined Scaling

Figure 6.12: R Program To Plot Common Space Scores for the House and Senate, 1937 - 2002

BOTH_MEANS.DAT: Mean Common Space Scores for Political Parties in the House and Senate, 1937 - 2002

Figure 6.13: R Program To Plot OC Coordinates for the House and Senate, 1937 - 2002

BOTH_MEANS_OC.DAT: Mean OC Coordinates for Political Parties in the House and Senate, 1937 - 2002

Book Chapters

Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Geometry of Parliamentary Roll Call Voting
Chapter 3: The Optimal Classification Method
Chapter 4: Probabilistic Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting
Chapter 5: Practical Issues in Computing Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting
Chapter 6: Conducting Natural Experiments with Roll Calls
Chapter 7: Conclusion

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