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Congressional Voting Data

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This dataset contains a variety of measures that relate to party voting in the U.S. Congress.

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The data extend from the 40th – 109th Congresses. Contact Garry Young (youngg@gwu.edu) if you are interested in the pre-40th Congress period or otherwise have questions about the data.

Some of these variables, such as the party unity scores are familiar in the literature. Variables L – AI were developed by Cooper and Young. Most of these are discussed in the following: Joseph Cooper and Garry Young. 2002. “Party and Preference in Congressional Decision Making: Roll Call Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1889-1997.” in Mathew McCubbins and David Brady, eds.

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Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress: New Directions in Studying the History of the U.S. Congress Stanford: Stanford University Press; & Joseph Cooper and Garry Young. 1997. “Partisanship, Bipartisanship, and Crosspartisanship in Congress Since the New Deal,” in Lawrence Dodd and Bruce Oppenheimer, Congress Reconsidered 6th Ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

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