Rollcall vote data for Delaware State Legislature
Description
This data frame contains the rollcall voting data for the Delaware state legislature from 1995 to present. The data is in long format so that each row is one vote cast by a legislator. It includes a column, ‘group_id’, that lists a party for each legislator (D=Democrat, R=Republican,X=Independent).
Usage
delaware
Format
A long data frame with one row for every vote cast by a legislator.
Details
The original data come from Boris Shor and Nolan McCarty (2002), "The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures", American Political Science Review.