Setting the Alcohol-control Agenda: Popular Attitudes and Legislative Responses Toward Alcohol Control and Prohibition in the United States, 1890-1950 (ICPSR 20903)
Published: Feb 6, 2008
Principal Investigator(s):
Mark Lawrence Schrad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20903.v1
Version V1
Summary
These datasets were constructed to discern whether the dramatic policy punctuations associated with the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments to the United States Constitution, which instituted and repealed, respectively, the policy of alcohol prohibition, could best be accounted for through the use of punctuated equilibrium theory. To that end, two datasets were constructed. The first attempts to gauge public attitudes toward alcohol control and prohibition, as well as its place on the public agenda, through a coding of all entries related to alcohol control and prohibition in the READER'S GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE, from 1890 through 1950, using a simplified version of the general coding protocols of the Policy Agendas Project (PAP). The second dataset seeks to gauge legislative activity and the issues placed on the legislative agenda through a similar coding of the hearings sections in the Congressional Information Service's CIS ANNUAL: ABSTRACTS OF CONGRESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND LEGISLATIVE HISTORY CITATIONS for the same time period.
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Geographic Coverage
Time Period(s)
1890-01-01 -- 1950-12-31
Date of Collection
2005-12-01 -- 2005-12-12
2005-12-12 -- 2005-12-19
Data Collection Notes
The unlabeled cases in JournalName and ISSN were blank for those variables in the original dataset.
System limitations prevented the inclusion of PersistantURL in Part 1. The data is included as an appendix to the codebook.
Variable and value labels were edited or added for both parts to match study documentation.
Variable label names longer than 16 characters were shortened to 16 characters by the system. Those affected were HistoricalSubjects and ItercoderReliability in dataset 1 and CommitteeHearingSubject and RegulationIncreaseorDecrease in dataset 2. See codebook for full variable labels.
The "Congressional Cmte Hearings" worksheet was deleted from the READER'S GUIDE file (dataset 1) per PI instruction.
System limitations required truncating the variables Subjects and Historical Subjects to 200 characters. Data not included in the files are included as an appendix in the codebook.
ID# was renamed to make it valid in SAS in both parts.
Years added to cases in HearingDates in dataset 2 were added for consistency and clarity.
Universe
Articles referring to alcohol control or prohibition in the READER'S GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE, 1890-1950.
Unit(s) of Observation
Congressional hearing
Entry in the READER'S GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE
Data Source
Listings in the READER'S GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE from 1890 through 1950.
Listings in the Congressional Information Service's CIS ANNUAL: ABSTRACTS OF CONGRESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND LEGISLATIVE HISTORY CITATIONS, from 1890 through 1950.
administrative records data
Original Release Date
2008-02-06
Version Date
2008-02-06
Notes
Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.