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Get replication data from Harbridge-Yong, Volden, and Wiseman (2023)

Source: R/get_hvw_data.R
get_hvw_data.Rd

get_hvw_data() returns replication data from:

Harbridge-Yong, L., Volden, C., & Wiseman, A. E. (2023). The bipartisan path to effective lawmaking. The Journal of Politics, 85(3), 1048–1063. doi:10.1086/723805

Usage

get_hvw_data(chamber, local_path = NULL)

Arguments

chamber

Which chamber to get data for. Options are:

  • "house", "h", "hr": House data only.

  • "senate", "s", "sen": Senate data only.

These options are case-insensitive. Any other argument results in an error.

Note: Unlike the Voteview functions, there is no "all" option. The House and Senate data do not have the same number of variables, or the same variable names, so it is not trivial to join the two tables.

You must specify either House or Senate data, since there is no "default" option.

local_path

(Optional) A file path for reading from a local file. If no local_path is specified, will read data from the Harvard Dataverse website.

Value

A tibble.

Details

The replication data is available at the Harvard Dataverse.

The House and Senate data come from the files HarbridgeYong_Volden_Wiseman_House_Replication.tab and HarbridgeYong_Volden_Wiseman_Senate_Replication.tab, respectively.

The data spans the 93rd through 114th Congresses (1973-2016).

These datasets have been dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0.

Examples

get_hvw_data("senate")
#> # A tibble: 2,228 × 104
#>    last  first state  cabc  caic cbill  claw cpass  sabc  saic sbill  slaw spass
#>    <chr> <chr> <fct> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>
#>  1 Grav… Mike  AK        0     0    17     0     0     2     0    48     0     1
#>  2 Stev… Ted   AK        0     0     9     0     0     6     0    71     3     6
#>  3 Allen James AL        0     0     5     0     0     2     0    14     0     1
#>  4 Spar… John  AL        1     0    23     0     1     7     0    62     0     7
#>  5 Fulb… James AR        0     0     0     0     0     9     0    31     3     8
#>  6 McCl… John  AR        0     0     3     0     0     3     0    20     1     2
#>  7 Fann… Paul  AZ        0     0     4     0     0     1     0    32     1     1
#>  8 Gold… Barry AZ        0     0     6     0     0     0     0    13     0     0
#>  9 Cran… Alan  CA        7     0    17     1     7     5     0    64     2     4
#> 10 Tunn… John  CA        0     0     1     0     0     4     0    35     0     1
#> # ℹ 2,218 more rows
#> # ℹ 91 more variables: ssabc <int>, ssaic <int>, ssbill <int>, sslaw <int>,
#> #   sspass <int>, congress <int>, cgnum <int>, icpsr <int>, year <int>,
#> #   dem <lgl>, majority <lgl>, elected <int>, female <lgl>, afam <lgl>,
#> #   latino <lgl>, votepct <dbl>, dwnom1 <dbl>, chair <lgl>, subchr <lgl>,
#> #   seniority <int>, state_leg <lgl>, state_leg_prof <dbl>, maj_leader <lgl>,
#> #   min_leader <lgl>, allbill <int>, allaic <int>, allabc <int>, …
if (FALSE) { # interactive()
get_hvw_data("house")
}