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United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990: Reformatted Data (ICPSR 9822)
Released/updated on: 2026-08-17
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1789-01-01--1990-12-31
This study consists of roll call voting records from the United States Congress, including both the House of Representatives and Senate, from 1789 to 1990. The data is organized by distinct sessions of Congress, from 1st to 100th session of Congress. The units of analysis are individual members of Congress. Each record contains a member's voting action on every roll call vote taken during that session. The data also includes information associated with each record such as name, state, party code, ICPSR ID, member and occupancy codes, and Congress session number. The codebook files also contain supplemental information such as legislative citation codes, the voting date, the outcome tally, the relevant location, and a description of the voting issue.
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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, United States, 1890-2020 (ICPSR 38355)
Released/updated on: 2024-02-13
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1890-01-01--2020-12-31
The purpose for which these data were collected was to explore aggregate, time-series trends in economics, politics, society, and culture in the US between roughly 1890 and 2020. The sources for these various time series are given in the sources for each series. The results of the project appeared in Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett, The Upswing (Simon and Schuster, 2020).
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Simple Crosstabs
ANES Time Series Cumulative Data File (1948-2012) (ICPSR 8475)
Released/updated on: 2015-10-23
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1948-01-01--2012-12-31
This collection pools common variables from each of the biennial National Election Studies conducted since 1948 up until 2012. The election studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. The data provided in this cumulative file include a series of demographic variables and measures of social structure, partisanship, candidate evaluation, retrospective and incumbent presidential evaluation, public opinion, ideological support for the political system, mass media usage, and egalitarianism and post-materialism. Additional items provide measures of political activity, participation, and involvement, and voting behavior and registration, including results of voter validation efforts.
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ANES 1956-1960 Panel Study (ICPSR 35103)
Released/updated on: 2014-05-19
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1956-09-01--1960-12-31
This study is part of a time-series collection of national surveys fielded continuously since 1952. The American National Election Studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. The data for this collection are derived from an interviewing program across three studies: the 1956 Presidential Pre- and Post-Election (AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1956 [ICPSR 7214]), 1958 Congressional (AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1958 [ICPSR 7215]), and 1960 Presidential Pre- and Post-Election Studies (AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1960 [ICPSR 7216]).
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ANES Time Series Cumulative Data File (1948-2008) (ICPSR 35100)
Released/updated on: 2014-05-02
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1948-01-01--2008-12-31
This collection pools common variables from each of the biennial National Election Studies conducted since 1948. The election studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. The data provided in this cumulative file include a series of demographic variables and measures of social structure, partisanship, candidate evaluation, retrospective and incumbent presidential evaluation, public opinion, ideological support for the political system, mass media usage, and equalitarianism and post-materialism. Additional items provide measures of political activity, participation, and involvement, and voting behavior and registration (including results of vote validation efforts). In 2001, corrections were made to variables VCF0902, VCF0904, and VCF0905.
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State Legislative Election Returns (1967-2010) (ICPSR 34297)
Released/updated on: 2013-01-11
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1967-01-01--2010-12-31
This data set contains comprehensive information on state legislative general election returns from 1967 through 2010. Each of the more than 300,000 observations refers to an individual candidate who ran for state legislative office. Variables include district designations, year and month of election, type of district (multimember, etc.), and candidate attributes such as incumbency status, party and vote total. The data come from five sources, three of which are ICPSR data collections (#8907, #3938, #21480); this data set is an update of these previous releases, through 2010.
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Prohibition Movement in the United States, 1801-1920 (ICPSR 8343)
Released/updated on: 2012-10-26
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1801-01-01--1920-12-31
These data were gathered for use in modeling the diffusion of prohibition in the United States throughout the nineteenth century. The study contains information on the prohibition status of counties from 1801 to 1920. For each county in the continental United States, the prohibition status is recorded annually starting with 1801. For those counties that were established after 1801, the prohibition status is recorded from the date the county was created. State-level prohibition status is also identified.
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Massachusetts Superior Court Files, 1859-1959 (ICPSR 7776)
Released/updated on: 2010-05-14
Geographic coverage: United States, Massachusetts
Time period: 1859-01-01--1959-12-31
This dataset contains data about case records created between 1859-1959 in the Massachusetts Superior Court (and its predecessors) for two Massachusetts counties. Part 1 contains data for 1,952 criminal cases with 52 descriptive variables, including: type of crime, year crime was committed, pleas, sentences, appeals, size of file, and demographic characteristics of victim and defendant (e.g., gender, status, residence, and occupation). Eighteen variables describe and rate each case's historical interest. Part 2 contains data on 1,968 civil (law, equity, and divorce) cases, with 82 descriptive variables, such as: relationship between parties, type of complaint, relief sought, disposition, relief granted, number of claims, damages awarded, size of file, and demographic characteristics of plaintiff and defendant (e.g., gender, status, residence, and occupation). Ten variables describe and rate each case's historical interest. In both data files, criteria for historical interest coding include: (1) inherent interest, such as offenses that are not routine (e.g., white-collar crimes, sexual crimes, and serious felonies), parties who are inherently interesting (e.g., famous persons, institutional defendants, and law enforcement personnel), and legal proceedings that are inherently interesting (e.g., alleged violations of prosecutorial or judicial discretion), (2) contexts that are inherently interesting, and (3) extraordinary documentation, such as those that shed light on the legal system (e.g., pardons or letters from citizens' committees), shed light on social history (e.g., the testimony of a woman who moved to the city and inadvertently ended up in a brothel), provide legal/procedural information (e.g., the details of search or a technical challenge to an indictment), and describe public or political history (e.g., milk inspection or zoning laws).
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United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1998 (ICPSR 4)
Released/updated on: 2010-05-06
Time period: 1789-01-01--1998-12-31
Roll call voting records for both chambers of the United States Congress through the second session of the 105th Congress are presented in this data collection. Each data file in the collection contains information for one chamber of a single Congress. The units of analysis in each part are the individual members of Congress. Each record contains a member's voting action on every roll call vote taken during that Congress, along with variables that identify the member (e.g., name, party, state, district, uniform ICPSR member number, and most recent means of attaining office). In addition, the codebook provides descriptive information for each roll call, including the date of the vote, outcome in terms of nays and yeas, name of initiator, the relevant bill or resolution number, and a synopsis of the issue.
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Electoral and Demographic Data, 1848-1876: Massachusetts (ICPSR 8242)
Released/updated on: 2009-11-20
Geographic coverage: United States, Massachusetts
Time period: 1848-01-01--1876-12-31
This data collection contains electoral and demographic data for Massachusetts counties and cities during 1848-1876. The data for this collection were compiled to study electoral changes in Massachusetts politics during the Civil War period and to link the changes to socioeconomic determinants of support for the Republican and Democratic parties. Specific variables include number of voters for specific years and demographic information such as number of males and females and number of males employed in certain trades. Electoral data consists of election results.
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Collective Memory in Lithuania, 1989 (ICPSR 9960)
Released/updated on: 2009-07-21
Geographic coverage: Lithuania, Global
Time period: 1989-01-01--1989-12-31
These data are part of a larger survey conducted by the Public Opinion Research Center of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology, and Law, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Those surveyed were asked to answer two open-ended questions, previously used in the United States in 1985 (INTERSECTION OF PERSONAL AND NATIONAL HISTORY, 1985: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 9257]), that elicited responses on which national and world events or changes occurring during the past 60 years were especially important to the respondent. Respondents whose mother tongue was Lithuanian were given the questionnaire in the Lithuanian language. Others, mainly Russians, were given the questionnaire in Russian. Demographic data include ethnic identity, age, education, and gender.
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Database of [United States] Congressional Historical Statistics, 1789-1989 (ICPSR 3371)
Released/updated on: 2009-02-03
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1789-01-01--1989-12-31
This data release is composed of tables from a database of United States Congressional statistics spanning the time period 1789 through 1989. The sources of the data were studies in the ICPSR collection and other historical texts and studies. There are eleven data files in total, including two additional tables that have been added since the first release. Some files contain records for additional Congresses. The rows in the various files describe different entities. For example, in the Votes Table file, each row contains a record of a vote by a particular member on a particular roll call vote. The Member Table file contains a record for each member of Congress, while the Serves Table file contains a record for each member for every Congress in which he or she served. See the descriptions of each file in the codebook for details about its contents. The data from the various files can be combined by matching the fields that they have in common. Cross-file searches should be conducted using the Member_ID field. However, not every file has the Member_ID field. In those cases, an alternative common field should be used.
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Women in Parliament, 1945-2003: Cross-National Dataset (ICPSR 24340)
Released/updated on: 2008-12-22
Geographic coverage: Middle East, Asia, Africa, North America, Global, Latin America
Time period: 1945-01-01--2003-12-31
This data collection provides information on women's inclusion in parliamentary bodies in over 150 countries from 1945 to 2003. The dataset allows for extensive, large-scale, cross-national investigation of the factors that explain women's attainment of political power over time and provides educators with comprehensive international and historical information on women in a variety of political positions. Information is provided on female suffrage, the first female member of parliament, yearly percentages of women in parliaments, when women reached important representational milestones, such as 10 percent, 20 percent, and 30 percent of a legislature, and when women achieved highly-visible political positions, such as prime minister, president, or head of parliament.
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State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2003 (ICPSR 21480)
Released/updated on: 2008-04-22
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1967-01-01--2003-12-31
This data collection contains information on state legislative election returns from 1967 through 2003. Each observation in the data refers to an individual candidate who ran for state legislative office during this time period. There are a total of 259,000 observations. For some states, there are observations for candidates competing in primaries before 1990. For years after 1989, there are observations only for general elections.
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Nations, Development, and Democracy, 1800-2005 (ICPSR 20440)
Released/updated on: 2007-12-13
Geographic coverage: Global
Time period: 1800-01-01--2005-12-31
To serve the scholarly community's growing interest in the process of democratization in the world over the past 200 years, this data collection consists of a compiled database that assesses 187 (20 historical and 167 contemporary) sovereign countries from 1800-2005. The database was constructed by merging variables derived from these existing datasets: (1) POLITY III: REGIME TYPE AND POLITICAL AUTHORITY 1800-1994 (Jagger and Gurr 1995) [ICPSR 6695], (2) CROSS-NATIONAL TIME SERIES, 1815-1973 (Banks 1993) [ICPSR 7412], (3) Polity IV (Jagger and Gurr 2005), (4) Political Freedom Indicators (Freedom House 2000), (5) World Development Indicators 1960-1998 (World Bank 1999), and (6) World Development Indicators 1960-2005 (World Bank 2006). In addition, missing variables were coded from the Statesman's Yearbook (2000), the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators (Taylor and Jodice 1983), Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Relations (Osmanczyk 1982), and the journal, "Freedom Review," published by Freedom House. A sovereign country was defined as an independent member of the international system, which had a population greater than 500,000. In the database, for each sovereign country there are over 120 indicators, annually recorded, that represent: (1) the level of democratic growth, (2) the countries' development depicted by socioeconomic, demographic, and geographical characteristics, and (3) diffusion indicators. In addition, to add precision to the measurement, modifications of the core indicators were also recorded. The database is complimented by an index of variables.
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Historians and the Meiji Statesmen (ICPSR 7653)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-18
Geographic coverage: Japan, Global
This data collection contains survey information for 127 historians in Japan and 14 historians in England and the United States on their assessments of 40 Meiji statesmen active in the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912). Part 1 contains data collected from the Japanese respondents, including their rankings of the statesmen on a five-point interval scale (from most important, most influential, to least important, least influential) and a cumulative ranking on a ten-point interval scale. Part 1 also includes biographical information about the interview respondents, i.e., birthplace, year of birth, university of graduation, and field of study. Part 2 contains data collected from the English and American respondents, including their rankings of the Meiji statesmen on the five-point interval scale. For a list of the 40 Meiji statesmen, details of the five ranks, and a description of the criteria for the ten-point interval scale, see Appendices C and D, and Table 16 in Chang, Richard. HISTORIANS AND MEIJI STATESMEN. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1970. For a related data collection, see HISTORIANS AND THE TAISHO STATESMEN (ICPSR 7608).
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International Almanac of Electoral History, 1981 (ICPSR 8247)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-18
Geographic coverage: Europe, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Portugal, Iceland, Global, Spain, New Zealand, Greece, Canada, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Australia, France, Germany
Time period: 1981-01-01--1981-12-31
This data collection contains information for elections in specified countries from the beginning of competitive national elections until December of 1981. Included are the United States presidential election returns and votes for members of the lower houses of parliament in the remaining countries in the survey. Votes are recorded for every party that had at least once secured 1 percent or more of the valid vote in a national election. Some parties with fewer votes are included when this aids crossnational comparison, or when the separatist or regional character of the party may lead it to regard its own "nation" as smaller than the total electorate. The data are contained in three files. Part 4, Summary Information for Each Election [Year], contains summary information for each election, such as the size of the electorate, turnout, valid and invalid votes, total votes, and the number of seats in the legislature. Part 5, Number of Votes Cast for Each Party for Each Election [Votes], contains the number of votes cast for each party at each election. Part 6, Number of Seats Won by Each Party at Each Election [Seats], contains the number of seats won by each party at each election and the total number of seats in the legislature. Parts 1-3 are documentation files.
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Voting Scores for Members of the United States Congress, 1945-1982 (ICPSR 7645)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-18
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1945-01-01--1982-12-31
This data collection contains voting scores taken from the CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY ALMANAC, a publication of Congressional Quarterly, Inc. (CQ) for the years 1945 to 1982 (79th-97th Congresses). Part 1 contains voting scores for members of the United States Senate, and Part 2 contains such scores for the members of the United States House of Representatives. In both parts, the unit of analysis is the individual member of Congress. The identification variables in each file include member name, member's state, and member's party. In most instances a set of scores is presented for each member of Congress, for each session of the Congress, and for the Congress as a whole (both sessions). For the 96th and 97th Congresses (1979-1980, 1981-1982) scores for both sessions combined are not provided. The major types of CQ voting scores in the data collection are: (1) "voting participation score," indicating member's attendance (not to be confused with the CQ "on the record" score which shows how often the member has taken a stand on all issues), (2) "partisan voting score," calculated on a subset of the total roll calls that CQ designated as "party unity" roll calls, e.g., roll calls in which a majority of voting Democrats opposed a majority of voting Republicans (with exceptions in the 83rd and 88th Congresses when a "party voting" score was released), (3) "bipartisan voting score," consistently figured by CQ on a subset of the total bipartisan roll calls, i.e., those in which a majority of Democrats and a majority of Republicans voted the same way (until 1978 when the score was no longer reported), (4)"conservative coalition score," based on a subset of roll calls in which a majority of voting Southern Democrats and a majority of voting Republicans opposed the position of a majority of voting Northern Democrats, (5) "presidential issues score," which rates members on those roll calls dealing with issues on which the president has clearly and previously stated a personal position (from 1955 to 1970, this score was further subdivided into support scores for foreign and for domestic policies of the president), (6) "federal role score," which gauges the Congressperson's support and opposition of moves for a larger or smaller federal role (in earlier Congresses, CQ used a similar process to figure "economy support," opposition scores that were designed to represent a member's position on moves to limit or increase federal spending), and (7) a set of interest group scores taken from the CQ WEEKLY REPORTS and added to the two data files (for the years 1960 to 1982) that score each Congressperson's support of interest groups, i.e., Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), the Americans for Constitutional Action (ACA), the Committee on Political Education (COPE), and the National Farmers Union (NFU). Interest group ratings are included only for each session, not for the entire Congresses. (Beginning with the 1978 session, NFU rating scores were no longer included.)
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Correlates of Crime: A Study of 52 Nations, 1960-1984 (ICPSR 9258)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-12
Geographic coverage: Global
Time period: 1960-01-01--1984-12-31
This collection contains data on crime and on relevant social, economic, and political measures hypothesized to be related to crime for 52 nations over a 25-year period. These time-series data are divided into five substantive areas: offense, offender, and national social, political, and economic data. Nations included in the collection were drawn from seven major regions of the world.
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State Legislative Election Returns in the United States, 1968-1989 (ICPSR 8907)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-12
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1968-01-01--1989-12-31
The purpose of this collection is to extend detailed study of electoral and governmental processes in the United States to the state and local levels and to encourage comparative analyses of voting patterns, political party competition, and partisan control between different states or regions. The collection provides election data at the county, constituency, and candidate levels for state legislative races contested in the United States between 1968 and 1989. General election returns for all 50 states are included, as well as primary election returns for 16 southern and border states. Data include county-level returns for all major and minor political parties that contested elections for seats in state legislatures, individual candidate totals at both the county and constituency levels, incumbency status, total number of votes cast for all candidates in an election, each candidate's percentage of the vote, and several measures comparing a candidate's performance with those of his or her rivals.
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Detroit Area Study, 1991: Collective Memories (ICPSR 2160)
Released/updated on: 2005-12-15
Geographic coverage: Detroit, United States, Michigan
Time period: 1991-01-01--1991-12-31
For this survey, respondents were asked to consider key historical national and world events since 1930 and to describe the impact of these events upon their lives and why these events seemed especially important. The list of events respondents were queried about included the invention of the television, the decline of communism in eastern Europe, the Korean War, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, space exploration, terrorism and hostage-taking, and the threat of nuclear war. Those queried were also asked about events or changes that were especially poignant to them and whether they kept memorabilia from the past, such as items from World War II, the Holocaust, or the Vietnam War. Specific questions on the events of World War II were included in the survey. Respondents also answered questions regarding events or changes related to their own interests, such as religion, sports, music, television, and films. Background information includes religion, marital status, education, employment, political orientation, and income.
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Revised Candidate-Level State Legislative Returns in the United States with Adjusted Candidate Names, 1968-1989 (ICPSR 3938)
Released/updated on: 2005-12-15
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1968-01-01--1989-12-31
The purpose of this collection is to extend detailed study of electoral and governmental processes in the United States to the state and local levels and to encourage comparative analyses of voting patterns, political party competition, and partisan control between different states or regions. The collection, which is derived from STATE LEGISLATIVE ELECTION RETURNS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1968-1989 (ICPSR 8907), provides election data at the constituency and candidate levels for state legislative races contested in the United States between 1968 and 1989. General election returns for all 50 states are included, as well as primary election returns for 16 southern and border states. Data include returns for all candidates, from both major and minor political parties, that contested elections for seats in state legislatures, individual candidate totals at the constituency level, incumbency status, total number of votes cast for all candidates in an election, each candidate's percentage of the vote, and several measures comparing a candidate's performance with those of his or her rivals. The data also include the state postal abbreviations and state FIPS codes.
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American Panel Study: 1956, 1958, 1960 (ICPSR 7252)
Released/updated on: 2000-03-15
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1956-09-01--1960-12-31
This study is part of a time-series collection of national surveys fielded continuously since 1952. The American National Election Studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. The data for this collection are derived from an interviewing program across three studies: the 1956 Presidential Pre- and Post-Election (AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1956 [ICPSR 7214]), 1958 Congressional (AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1958 [ICPSR 7215]), and 1960 Presidential Pre- and Post-Election Studies (AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1960 [ICPSR 7216]).
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Flash Euro-barometer Omnibus: United Europe, January 1992 (ICPSR 6109)
Released/updated on: 1996-12-10
Geographic coverage: Europe, United Kingdom, Portugal, Global, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, Denmark, Italy, France, Germany
Time period: 1992-01-01--1992-01-31
The purpose of this study was to measure public opinion in the European Community regarding the name of a future united Europe. Respondents were asked about their preferences for the following names: "European Community," "European Union," "Union of European Nations," "United Europe," "United Nations of Europe," and "United States of Europe." In addition, respondents were asked how they would place their political views on a left-right scale. The survey also gathered information on gender, age, education, region of residence, and subjective size of locality.
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Referenda and Primary Election Materials (ICPSR 6)
Released/updated on: 1995-06-05
Geographic coverage: North Carolina, Indiana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Kentucky, California, Kansas, Florida, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Iowa, Illinois, Texas, Connecticut, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Idaho, Oregon, Vermont, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine, Alabama, Arkansas, Washington, South Carolina, Nebraska, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Colorado, Missouri, Alaska, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Hawaii, Minnesota, New Jersey, Michigan, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Louisiana, Ohio
This data collection contains election returns at the county and state levels from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth century for primary and general elections on statewide referenda, constitutional amendments, state House/Senate joint resolutions, and initiated measures. The ballot language of each measure is also included. County-level returns for most gubernatorial, senatorial, and congressional primary elections from 1910 to the present are documented as well.
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Portuguese Election Returns, 1975-1976 (ICPSR 7652)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Portugal, Global
Time period: 1975-01-01--1976-12-31
This data collection contains raw and percentagized returns for the first two elections held in Portugal since the revolution in 1974 -- the election of new members to the Portuguese Constituent Assembly on April 23, 1975, and the election of members to the Portuguese National Assembly on April 25, 1976. The election returns were originally published in ELEICAO PARA A ASSEMBLEIA DA REPUBLICA - 1976: RESULTADOS POR FREGUESIAS, CONCELHOS, E DISTRITOS, COMPARADOS COM OS DE 1975 by the Technical Secretariat under the auspices of the Ministry of Internal Administrations. The file contains data for national-, district-, council-, and parish-level units, including the number of registered voters, the total number of voters and non-voters, and the votes received by the 17 political parties in the elections of 1975 and 1976. The file also contains data indicating the percentage of voters and non-voters and of votes for each party.
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Social Bases of City Politics: Atlanta, 1865-1903 (ICPSR 7690)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States, Atlanta, Georgia
Time period: 1865-01-01--1903-12-31
This data collection contains biographical and political career information on 824 persons in Atlanta, Georgia, who campaigned for a city office at some point between 1865 and 1903. Data include name of individual, first year of office for which individual was campaigning, office for which campaigning (i.e., mayor, alderman, or councilman), result of campaign, votes received in first through seventh wards, type of election, political party affiliation, ward base of campaign, ward of residence, age elected, race, ethnic status, birthplace, date of arrival in Atlanta, cross occupational listing, occupations ten years before and ten years after the campaign, total time served in minor city office, total time served in Fulton County office, total times a member of the city Democratic executive committee before and during the campaign, Civil War experience, pre-Civil War sentiment (e.g., Secessionist or Unionist), religion, property assessment, and membership in fraternal groups, social clubs, and the fire department.
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Operational Code Belief System of President Nasser of Egypt, 1952-1970 (ICPSR 7764)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Egypt, Global
Time period: 1952-01-01--1970-12-31
This study includes data derived from a content analysis of all publicly available verbal articulations by Egypt's President Nasser made between 1952 and 1970. The 768 documents examined include speeches, books, articles, minutes from open and closed meetings, memoirs, and private conversations. Each document was analyzed by paragraph. Approximately 3,838 paragraphs thus constitute the units of observation in the data. Over half of the 67 variables are devoted to evidence of Nasser's knowledge, sources of knowledge, goals, and philosophical beliefs (e.g., the nature of the political universe, sources of conflict, and the conditions needed for peace). The rest of the variables include characteristics of the document under analysis, type of audience Nasser was addressing, characteristics of adversaries, and domestic and foreign policy issue areas (e.g., military, security, political, economic, and cultural) discussed in the analyzed sources.
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Legislative Behavior in the Israeli Knesset, 1974-1975 (ICPSR 7851)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Israel, Global
Time period: 1974-01-01--1975-12-31
This study, conducted in 1975-1975, contains data from personal interviews with 86 members of the 8th Israeli Knesset (1973-1977). Data include members' general perceptions of the legislature and the Israeli political world, as well as their specific party and career histories, areas of expertise, positions held in the Knesset, legislative accomplishments and goals, and legislative behavior, e.g., contact with party leaders, civil servants, and constituents. Other survey data focus on members' political socialization, recruitment, and first political awareness, including the impact of World War II (e.g., concentration camps and purges), elections, Zionism, family activists, school, the Palestine-Israeli conflict, anti-Semitism in community, and membership in youth groups. Personal background data are also included, e.g., age, sex, education, religion, country of origin, family circumstances, and wave (Aliyah) of immigration to Israel.
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British House of Commons Roll Call Data, 1841-1847 (ICPSR 7384)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Great Britain
Time period: 1841-01-01--1847-12-31
This study investigated the socioeconomic composition of the 1841-1847 British House of Commons and the political behavior of the men who sat in it. For each member of parliament, data were collected on personal background, constituency, political career, social position, and professional and business interests. The information on political behavior includes party affiliation, roll call responses in 186 individual parliamentary votes (called "divisions"), and the parliament members' ranking on 24 cumulative scales derived from voting data to allow generalizations about voting patterns.
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Cross-National Time Series, 1815-1973 (ICPSR 7412)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Global
Time period: 1815-01-01--1973-12-31
This study is a longitudinal national data series for 167 nations. The present dataset represents an expansion both of temporal coverage and of substantive variable categories from the earlier CROSS POLITY TIME SERIES (ICPSR 5002) by the Center for Comparative Political Research, State University of New York (Binghamton). General areas included among the variables now available are demographic, social, political, and economic topics. Cases in the data collection represent nation-year observations.
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Roll Calls of the Continental Congresses and the Congresses of the Confederation, 1777-1789 (ICPSR 7537)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1777-01-01--1789-12-31
This dataset includes 1,593 roll calls taken in the Continental Congresses of the Confederation in the years 1777-1789. The data were originally collected as part of the Historical Records Surveys, sponsored by the Works Project Administration and carried out by the state of New Jersey and the city of New York in 1938-1942. The unit of analysis in the file is the delegate, an individual member of the state delegation. The vote outcomes were determined by the unit rule. It is believed that the file includes virtually all roll calls for which individual delegate votes are available in the historical record. Characteristics of the 1,593 roll calls are included in the data, e.g., motion description, date, whether the motion passed, state vote total, delegate vote total, and source. Also included is delegate's name, state, and roll call vote, coded as yea, nay, not voting, or name not given in the list of those voting. Data were keypunched by ICPSR staff from Clifford L. Lord, ed. ATLAS OF CONGRESSIONAL ROLL CALLS, VOL. I: THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESSES AND THE CONGRESSES OF THE CONFEDERATION, 1777-1789. New York, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1943. An extensive discussion of the work procedures followed by Lord and documentation of sources used is available in the Atlas.
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Comparative Survey of Freedom, 1972-1976 (ICPSR 7555)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: South America, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Paraguay, Syria, Solomon Islands, Latin America, Bahamas, Gibralter, Montserrat, Mali, Panama, Guadeloupe, Virgin Islands of the United States, Laos, Argentina, Falkland Islands, Africa, Seychelles, Zambia, Belize, Bahrain, Guinea-Bissau, Namibia, Finland, Comoros, Faroe Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Yemen, Puerto Rico, China (Peoples Republic), Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Libya, Western Samoa, Sweden, Malawi, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Poland, Jordan, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Channel Islands, United Arab Emirates, Tuvalu, Kenya, French Polynesia, Lebanon, Djibouti, Brunei, Cuba, Czech Republic, Mauritania, Mayotte, Israel, San Marino, Australia, Azores, Soviet Union, Myanmar, Central America, Cameroon, Cyprus, Northern Mariana Islands, Bermuda Islands, Malaysia, North America, Iceland, Global, Oman, Armenia, Gabon, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, Brazil, Turks and Caicos Islands, Algeria, Ecuador, Colombia, Vanuatu, Italy, Honduras, Micronesia (Federated States), Nauru, Haiti, Afghanistan, Burundi, Singapore, French Guiana, American Samoa, Christmas Island, Netherlands, Martinique, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Reunion, Bhutan, Romania, Togo, Philippines, Asia, Democratic Republic of Congo, British Virgin Islands, Zimbabwe, Pacific Ocean, Indonesia, Benin, Angola, Sudan, East Timor, Portugal, New Caledonia, North Korea, Grenada, Greece, Cayman Islands, Morocco, Iran, Guatemala, Guyana, Iraq, Chile, Nepal, Isle of Man, Tanzania, West Indies, Ghana, India, Canada, Maldives, Turkey, Belgium, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Central African Republic, Jamaica, Peru, Germany, Vietnam (Socialist Republic), Easter Island, Fiji, Tokelau, Hong Kong, United States, Guinea, Chad, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Thailand, Equatorial Guinea, Kiribati, Costa Rica, Middle East, Kuwait, Nigeria, Uruguay, Sri Lanka, Cook Islands, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, Liberia, Venezuela, Burkina Faso, Swaziland, Wallis and Futuna, Niue, South Korea, Austria, Mozambique, El Salvador, Monaco, Guam, Lesotho, Tonga, Juan Fernandez Islands, Hungary, Japan, Europe, Mauritius, Albania, Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Senegal, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Bolivia, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Cape Verde, Southeast Asia, Pakistan, Gambia, Ireland, Qatar, France, Niger, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Barbados, Norway, Botswana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Macao, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Uganda, Suriname, Saint Helena, Greenland
Time period: 1972-01-01--1976-12-31
This data collection contains information gathered in five annual surveys that assessed the degree of freedom in 218 nations and dependencies from 1972-1976. The study was carried out under the auspices of Freedom House, New York City. The number of cases with data varies from year to year, due to annexation, amalgamation, or the addition of further territories to the roster. The data include assessments of the political and civil rights of the general population (using a seven-point scale, i.e., 1, most freedom, to 7, least freedom), an overall freedom rating for the country (using a three-point scale, i.e, free, partly free, and not free), and the direction in which this rating appeared to be moving. Surveys after 1972 have added variables that indicate whether a change in the evaluation since the previous survey was due to internal events in the country or to new information about existing conditions. Before 1973, only the presence or absence of change is noted. Thereafter, an increase in the number of coding categories enables the direction of the change to be recorded. The 1976 data include four additional variables applicable to 142 cases and provide information about the system of government and the economy of most of the nations studied. The rationale used in assigning the seven categories on the continuum of most to least freedom can be found in Appendix III of the codebook, including which civil and political rights were considered critical in order for a nation to garner each rating.
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Historians and the Taisho Statesmen (ICPSR 7608)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Global
This data collection contains data from questionnaire sent to 68 historians in Japan for their assessments of 18 statesmen active during the Taisho period in Japan (1912-1926). The data include biographical information on the respondents, such as birthplace, year of birth, Marxist or non-Marxist affiliation, university of graduation, status (e.g., professor, assistant professor, or doctoral candidate), faculty (discipline), and academic specialization. The file also includes the historians' assessments of the Taisho statesmen on an interval scale of five, from most important, most influential to least important, least influential. For a related data collection, see HISTORIANS AND THE MEIJI STATESMEN (ICPSR 7653)
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Swedish National Election Study, 1960 (ICPSR 7366)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Sweden, Global
Time period: 1960-01-01--1960-12-31
The Swedish Election Study, 1960, was conducted by the Institute of Political Science, the University of Goteborg, Sweden, as part of a political behavior research program that studied Riksdag (parliamentary) elections in the period 1956-1970. This study carried out an electorate survey in two stages with two different subsamples. Respondents in Subsample A were interviewed before the election, and were asked to complete a short mail-in questionnaire after the election. Subsample B was only interviewed in the weeks immediately following the election. Information was gathered about the respondents' communities, their position and mobility within those communities, and their exposure to the information media (television, local and national newspapers, radio, magazines, and political pamphlets). Respondents were also asked to rate their interest in various topics such as crime, political news, international news, sports, editorials, and economics, and to relate their opinions on the media and these topics to the 1960 election. Questions also probed respondents' reactions to existing political issues and to the government's related policies. Demographic data include sex, marital status, year of marriage, year of birth, income, spouse's income, and family income.
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Words and Deeds in Soviet Military Expenditures, 1955-1983 (ICPSR 8188)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Asia, Europe, Global, Soviet Union
Time period: 1955-01-01--1983-12-31
This data collection assesses the relationship between Soviet policy statements and military expenditures. Annual speeches given by Soviet Finance Ministers to the Supreme Soviet were analyzed for references to intended defense spending, the United States, and the threat of imperialism. Other variables in this dataset include estimates from various Western sources of the level of Soviet defense spending and identification of the appropriate year in the Soviet planning cycle. A year is the unit of analysis in this dataset.
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Turnout in State Gubernatorial Primary Elections, 1950-1982 (ICPSR 8390)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
This collection consists of voting turnout statistics for every contested gubernatorial primary election in 47 states from 1950 through 1982. Information is also included for states holding elections for four-year gubernatorial terms during 1946 and 1948. Data are not available for Delaware, Indiana, and New York, since primaries had not been adopted yet in these states. Information is provided on the number of candidates in each primary, total vote for the winner, and total vote in the party primary. In addition to raw vote totals, several derived variables are also included. A "normal" Democratic and Republican vote statistic, based on the average number of votes cast for the party's candidates for governor, United States senator, and United States congressman, is calculated for each year in each state as a means of comparing the total party primary vote with its vote in the general election. Furthermore, the study includes an adjusted voting age estimate for 11 southern states. That estimate is a ratio of the total number of Blacks of voting age to the total number of Black registered voters and is designed to control for the impact of discrimination on voter turnout prior to 1970.
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French Legislators, 1871-1940: Biographical Data (ICPSR 9050)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: France, Global
Time period: 1871-01-01--1940-12-31
This collection contains biographical data for all members of the French Chamber of Deputies and Senate who were elected to any of the legislatures from 1871 to 1940. Data were collected by the principal investigator using the following sources: (1) Robert Adolphe and Gaston Cougny, DICTIONNAIRE DES PARLEMENTAIRES FRANCAIS, (2) Jean Jolly, DICTIONNAIRE DES PARLEMENTAIRES FRANCAIS, (3) ANNUAIRE DU PARLEMENT, (4) TABLEAU DES ELECTIONS A LA CHAMBRE DES DEPUTES, and (5) Georges Lachapelle, ELECTIONS LEGISLATIVES DES 26 AVRIL ET 10 MAI 1914. There are 3,963 deputies, 813 senators, and 932 members who served in both chambers, for a total of 5,708 individual records. There are 111 variables per record, covering the legislator's dates of service, family background, age, education, profession, local and/or previous electoral service, party and political affiliation, successful and unsuccessful campaigns, and department represented.
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World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators II, 1948-1967: Annual Event Data (ICPSR 5028)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, Global, Latin America
This dataset contains information on eighteen types of political events aggregated by year to the nation level for years 1948-1967. The events included are riots, deaths from political violence, political assassinations, armed attacks, elections, protest demonstrations, regime support demonstrations, political strikes, renewals of power, unsuccessful executive transfers, unsuccessful irregular transfers, irregular power transfers, executive adjustments, regular executive transfers, executions, acts of negative sanctions, acts of relaxation of political restrictions, and external interventions. Sources are THE NEW YORK TIMES and the Associated Press. Data were collected by the World Data Analysis Program at Yale University.
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World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators II, 1948-1967: Daily Event Data (ICPSR 5215)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, Global, Latin America
This dataset contains information for 57,268 daily occurrences of seventeen types of political events: riots, deaths from political violence, political assassinations, armed attacks, elections, protest demonstrations, regime support demonstrations, political strikes, renewals of power, unsuccessful executive transfers, unsuccessful irregular transfers, irregular power transfers, executive adjustments, regular executive transfers, executions, acts of negative sanctions, and acts of relaxation of political restrictions. The data are recorded at daily intervals for each event group for each country during the twenty-year period 1948-1967. For example, two riots in a country on the same day appear as one record or case, but one riot and one election in a country on the same day appear as two separate records. Seven sources were used including THE NEW YORK TIMES INDEX and the Associated Press.
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World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators II, 1948-1967: Intervention Data (ICPSR 5306)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, Global, Latin America
This data set contains data for interventions recorded at daily intervals during the twenty-year period 1948-1967. The daily report is the unit of analysis. There are 1,073 records, one for each day on which an intervention occurred in a country. The number of records per country varies. If, for example, a country had no action meeting the criteria for inclusion as an intervention, no record is given for that day for that country. Those countries not involved in an intervention were excluded. Data are recorded for 89 of the 136 nations in the World Handbook Aggregate Data file and two international organizations. Some of the 31 variables included are the number of interveners, type of group involved, air and naval incursions, and length of intervener's presence in the country. The data sources are THE NEW YORK TIMES INDEX, ASSOCIATED PRESS, ASIAN RECORDER, AFRICAN RESEARCH BULLETIN, MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, and AFRICAN DIARY.
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United Nations Roll Call Data, 1946-1985 (ICPSR 5512)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Global
Time period: 1946-01-01--1985-12-31
This collection consists of roll calls voted upon in the United Nations. It includes votes of the General Assembly, five additional special sessions and selected committees. It is a composite of political debate and world opinion of the post-1945 international community. The collection provides for the analysis over time of world opinion on issues and concerns raised by members of the international community, while also allowing for the study of the dynamics through which alliances and factions are formed within and between nations of the world.