Legislative Behavior Study, 1957 (ICPSR 7209)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
John Wahlke; Heinz Eulau

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07209.v1

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Summary

This study surveyed members of the state legislatures of California, New Jersey, Ohio, and Tennessee during the 1957 sessions. The interviews focused on the perceptions and behaviors of state legislators, with special emphasis on their perceptions of the workings of the legislature, the roles and tasks of legislators as well as institutional and party officials, the workings of political parties and pressure groups and their bearing on substantive policy issues, and the influence patterns within the legislature. In addition, the respondents were questioned on their recruitment into politics, their political orientation, perceptions of their job, political motivations and aspirations, and responsibilities toward their party, constituents, and pressure groups.

Citation

Wahlke, John, and Eulau, Heinz. Legislative Behavior Study, 1957. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07209.v1

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Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1957

Date of Collection

1957-01-15 -- 1957-06-15
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Sample

The sample was identical with the population. Of a total of 504 possible interviews, only 30 were not completed, leaving the actual respondents statistically comparable with the population.

Universe

All members of the legislatures of California, New Jersey, Ohio, and Tennessee during the 1957 sessions.

Data Source

personal interviews

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Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Wahlke, John, and Heinz Eulau. Legislative Behavior Study, 1957. ICPSR07209-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 197?. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07209.v1

1984-05-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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