Partisan Division of American State Governments, 1834-1985 (ICPSR 16)

Principal Investigator(s): Burnham, W. Dean, Unkown

Summary: This data collection provides information on the number of seats held by the major and minor parties in both houses of the state legislatures, as well as the party identification of the state's governor during the term of each legislature in the United States in the period 1834-1985. Data are presented annually and biennially for every legislature. The data from 1834 to 1868 for both datasets were collected by W. Dean Burnham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Data for sub... (more info)

Series: Partisan Division of American State Governments Series

• These data are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions. Because you are not logged in, we cannot verify that you will be able to download the data.

Burnham, W. Dean. PARTISAN DIVISION OF AMERICAN STATE GOVERNMENTS, 1834-1985. Conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 198?. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00016.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00016.v1

Export Citation:

• RIS (generic format for RefWorks, EndNote, etc.)
• EndNote XML (EndNote X4.0.1 or higher)

Summary:   This data collection provides information on the number of seats held by the major and minor parties in both houses of the state legislatures, as well as the party identification of the state's governor during the term of each legislature in the United States in the period 1834-1985. Data are presented annually and biennially for every legislature. The data from 1834 to 1868 for both datasets were collected by W. Dean Burnham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Data for subsequent years were added by the ICPSR staff.

Subject Terms:   governors, legislative bodies, legislators, nineteenth century, political parties, political partisanship, state government, state legislatures, states (USA), twentieth century

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Time Period:  

• 1834--1985

Universe:   State legislatures in the United States in the period 1834-1985.

Data Types:   aggregate data

Original ICPSR Release:  1984-05-03

• List all 3799 variables in this study

• Search the variables in this study

Use any of the notification links to add this study to your RSS feed; you will then receive notification if the study is substantively updated.

• Citations exports are provided above.

• Export Study-level metadata (does not include variable-level metadata)

  • DDI Codebook or DDI Lifecycle

  • Dublin Core

  • MARC21 XML

  • DataCite XML

If you're looking for collection-level metadata rather than an individual metadata record, please visit our Metadata Records page.

• View Usage of this Study