Substance and Change in Congressional Ideology: NOMINATE and Its Alternatives

Poole and Rosenthal’s NOMINATE scores have been a boon to the study of Congress, but they are not without limitations. We focus on two limitations that are especially important in historical applications. First, the dimensions uncovered by NOMINATE do not necessarily have a consistent “ideological”...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schickler, Eric, Caughey, Devin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105926
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6769-1438