Important Congressional Votes, 1991-2020
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jordan Tama, American University, School of International Service
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Project Citation:
Tama, Jordan. Important Congressional Votes, 1991-2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-12-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E158101V1
Project Description
Summary:
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This data set is designed to facilitate
analysis of voting patterns in the U.S. Congress on important issues, with a
focus on the alignments of Democrats and Republicans. Unlike most other data
sets, the data set only includes votes on important legislation, facilitating
the analysis of voting patterns on legislation with significant ramifications. At
the same time, the data set includes both roll call votes and voice votes,
enabling researchers to generate more accurate conclusions about the actual
prevalence of polarization and bipartisanship in Congress. The data set also
includes several measures designed to capture different dimensions of
polarization and bipartisanship, enabling the examination of patterns related
to inter-party, intra-party, and intra-branch agreement and disagreement. Finally,
the data set includes variables representing the policy area covered by
legislation, facilitating analysis of how political alignments vary across
policy areas, particularly between foreign and domestic policy and among
different areas of foreign policy.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Congress;
United States Congress;
political partisanship;
Polarization;
Bipartisanship;
Foreign policy;
US foreign policy;
Legislation;
Democrats;
Republicans
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
Time Period(s):
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1991 – 2020
Collection Date(s):
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2017 – 2021
Data Type(s):
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roll call voting data
Methodology
Data Source:
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Congressional Quarterly Almanac
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