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Common-Space Ideal Points, Committee Assignments, and Financial Interests in the State Legislatures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2021

James Coleman Battista ,
Michael Peress  and
Jesse Richman
James Coleman Battista*
Affiliation:
University at Buffalo, SUNY, NY, USA
Michael Peress
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, NY, USA
Jesse Richman
Affiliation:
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
*
James Coleman Battista, University at Buffalo, SUNY, 520 Park Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA Email: jbattist@buffalo.edu
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Abstract

We present a new unified dataset of common-space ideal points, committee assignments, and financial interests for all state legislators in 1999. We describe the compilation of the dataset and offer a few possible applications.

Keywords

state legislaturesideal pointcommon spacecommittee assignmentsfinancial interestsdataset
Type
Research Article
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State Politics & Policy Quarterly , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 70 - 87
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2012

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