Ideal Point Data from Bailey (2007)
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For more recent ideal points, see Bailey (2013) data page
This tab-delimited file contains ideal points for each Senator, Representative, President and Supreme Court Justice for each year from 1951 to 2002. Details on the estimation procedure and the data are available in the AJPS article and in the data appendix linked below.
This tab-delimited file contains the ideal point estimates of Presidents and the median ideal point estimates for the Senate, House and Supreme Court for each year from 1951 to 2002. When one Justice replaces another on the court within a given year, the Justice who served longer is used to calculate the median for the year. One can use the raw ideal point data to make different calculations, if desired. The medians reported here differ slightly from Figure 7 in the paper which (indefensibly) calculated the median based on all Justices who served on the court in a given year.
This file contains additional information on the data and estimation procedure used in the American Journal of Political Science article.
Replication of Table 1
Data file (tab delimited)
