Welcome To the Voteview Website
Updated 10 March 2013
This site was originally established at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University in August of 1995. The orginal web-server was a 100 mhz machine running WINDOWS NT 3.51. The original link was:
http://voteview.gsia.cmu.edu
In 2000 the web-server was moved to the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston with the link:
http://voteview.uh.edu
In 2005 the web-server was moved to the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego with the current link (voteview.com) with a backup server with the link:
http://voteview.ucsd.edu
This website is now affiliated with the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. It is maintained off campus solely for stability purposes.
The primary purpose of this website is to make available the data that Howard Rosenthal and Keith Poole generated out of their many research projects. Keith and Howard adhere to the policy that all of their datasets and software are made freely available to anyone who asks for them. This webserver was established for this purpose. If you cannot find what you need on the various pages send Keith an E-Mail at: ktpoole@uga.edu
Recently Posted and Updated Pages
DW-NOMINATE Scores 1st to 112th Congresses (17 February 2013)
DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates and Issue Codes for Houses 1 to 112 (15 February 2013)
DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates and Issue Codes for Senates 1 to 112 (15 February 2013)
Party Unity Scores by Democrat and Republican Members: 1857 - 2012 (8 February 2013)
Party Unity Scores by Congress: 1879 - 2012 (8 February 2013)
Percent Voting on the Winning Side by Member -- Houses/Senates 1 - 112 (8 February 2013)
Party and Chamber Medians, 1 - 112 Congresses (DW-NOMINATE Scores) (8 February 2013)
Chamber Means and Winning Policy Means for 1st Dimension, 1 - 112 Congresses (DW-NOMINATE Scores) (8 February 2013)
Cutting Line Angle Files for the House and Senate 1st to 112th Congresses (7 February 2013)
Republican and Democratic Party Splits on all roll calls cast in Congresses 35 - 112 (7 February 2013)
Rank Orderings all Houses and Senates -- 1st to 112th Congresses (6 February 2013)
Common Space DW-NOMINATE Scores 1st to 112th Congresses (6 February 2013)
DW-NOMINATE Probabilities for Legislator Choices: 1st to 112th Congresses (6 February 2013)
One-Congress-at-a-Time DW-NOMINATE (Nokken-Poole) data for the House and Senate 1st to 112th Congresses (6 February 2013)
Political Polarization Measures: 1879 - 2012 (18 January 2013)
Optimal Classification in R Program with Examples (1 January 2013)
WNOMINATE in R Program with Examples (15 December 2010)
"A Spatial Model for Legislative Roll Call Analysis." GSIA Working Paper 5-83-84, September 1983 (With Howard Rosenthal). (This is the 1983 original -- our first paper on NOMINATE. For historical purposes only. Please note the discussion on pages 14 and 15.)
R Package for Aldrich-McKelvey and Basic Space Scaling (20 May 2010)
Common Space Scores Congresses 75 - 111 (15 February 2010)
"NOMINATE and American Political History: A Primer." by Phil Everson (Swarthmore), Rick Valelly (Swarthmore), and Jim Wiseman (Agnes Smith)
The Unidimensional Congress, 1919-84. GSIA Working Paper 44-84-85 (With Howard Rosenthal) (This is the 1985 original -- For historical purposes only.)
Picture of the Day
Cat Number 6 -- "Zoom Zoom" who loves shoes
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Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting
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