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 1^st to 112^th Congresses

DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates and Issue Codes for Houses 1 to 112

DW-NOMINATE Roll Call Coordinates and Issue Codes for Senates 1 to 112

Party Unity Scores by Democrat and Republican Members: 1857 - 2012

Party Unity Scores by Congress: 1879 - 2012

Percent Voting on the Winning Side by Member -- Houses/Senates 1 - 112

Party and Chamber Medians, 1 - 112 Congresses (DW-NOMINATE Scores)

Chamber Means and Winning Policy Means for 1^st Dimension, 1 - 112 Congresses (DW-NOMINATE Scores)

Cutting Line Angle Files for the House and Senate 1^st to 112^th Congresses

Republican and Democratic Party Splits on all roll calls cast in Congresses 35 - 112

Rank Orderings all Houses and Senates -- 1^st to 112^th Congresses

Common Space DW-NOMINATE Scores 1^st to 112^th Congresses

DW-NOMINATE Probabilities for Legislator Choices: 1^st to 112^th Congresses

One-Congress-at-a-Time DW-NOMINATE (Nokken-Poole) data for the House and Senate 1^st to 112^th Congresses

Political Polarization Measures: 1879 - 2012

Optimal Classification in R Program with Examples

WNOMINATE in R Program with Examples

"A Spatial Model for Legislative Roll Call Analysis."

R Package for Aldrich-McKelvey and Basic Space Scaling

Common Space Scores Congresses 75 - 111

"NOMINATE and American Political History: A Primer."

The Unidimensional Congress, 1919-84.

Picture of the Day

Cat Number 6 -- "Zoom Zoom" who loves shoes

Site Links

NOMINATE Data, Roll Call Data, and Software

Course Web Pages: UGA (2010 - )

Course Web Pages: UC San Diego (2004 - 2010)

University of San Diego Law School (2005)

Course Web Pages: University of Houston (2000 - 2005)

Course Web Pages: Carnegie-Mellon University (1997 - 2000)

Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting

Recent Working Papers

Analyses of Recent Politics

About This Website

K7MOA Log Books: 1960 - 2013

Bio of Keith T. Poole