Welcome To the Voteview Website
Updated 26 July 2010
(This Site Will be Backed Up at The University of Georgia Shortly)
This site was originally established at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration,
Carnegie-Mellon University in August of 1995. The orginal web-server was a 100 mhz
machine running WINDOWS NT 3.51. The original link was:
http://voteview.gsia.cmu.edu
In 2000 the web-server was moved to the Department of Political Science at the University
of Houston with the link:
http://voteview.uh.edu
This website is now affiliated with the Department of Political Science at the University
of Georgia. It is maintained off campus solely for stability purposes.
The primary purpose of this website is to make available the data that Howard Rosenthal and Keith Poole generated out
of their many research projects. Keith and Howard adhere to the policy that all
of their datasets and software are made freely available to anyone who asks for them. This webserver
was established for this purpose. If you cannot find what you need on the various pages send Keith
an E-Mail at: ktpoole@uga.edu
Recently Posted and Updated Pages
"A Spatial Model for
Legislative Roll Call Analysis." GSIA Working Paper
5-83-84, September 1983 (With Howard Rosenthal). (This is the 1983 original -- our first
paper on NOMINATE. Scanned upside down unfortunately but easy to read once it is
printed. For historical purposes only.)
R Package for Aldrich-McKelvey and Basic Space Scaling (20 May 2010)
DW-NOMINATE Probabilities for Legislator Choices:
1st to 111th Congresses (16 June 2010)
Cutting Line Angle Files for the House and Senate
1st to 111th Congresses (16 June 2010)
One-Congress-at-a-Time DW-NOMINATE (Nokken-Poole) data
for the House and Senate
1st to 111th (2009) Congresses (16 June 2010)
Percent Voting on the Winning Side by Member -- Houses/Senates 1 - 111 (16 June 2010)
Common Space Scores Congresses 75 - 111 (15 February 2010)
Rank Ordering of the 111th Senate (27 December 2009)
Rank Ordering of the 111th House (27 December 2009)
"NOMINATE and American Political History: A Primer." by
Phil Everson (Swarthmore), Rick Valelly (Swarthmore), and Jim Wiseman (Agnes Smith)
Common Space DW-NOMINATE
Scores 1st to 110th Congresses
DW-NOMINATE Program With Examples
Who is More Liberal, Clinton or Obama?
Two Dimensional Movie
of the 1st to 110th Houses and
Senates (high resolution, 547 Megabytes!!)
Two Dimensional Movie
of the 1st to 109th Houses and
Senates (high resolution, 718 Megabytes!!)
Rank Ordering of the 110th Senate (with Jeff Lewis,
28 June 2007)
DW-NOMINATE Scores with Bootstrapped Standard Errors, Congresses 1 - 110 (with Royce Carroll, Jeff Lewis,
James Lo, and Howard Rosenthal,
18 April 2008)
Current vs. Past DW-NOMINATE Scores: 1 - 110 Houses/Senates
to 1 - 105 Houses/Senates (18 April 2008)
Rank Ordering of the 110th House (with Jeff Lewis,
12 May 2007)
The 23 March 2007 House Vote on the Iraq War (with Jeff Lewis,
26 March 2007)
Does Gerrymandering Cause Polarization? (with Nolan McCarty and
Howard Rosenthal, February 2007)
The Unidimensional Congress, 1919-84.
GSIA Working Paper
44-84-85 (With Howard Rosenthal) (This is the 1985 original -- For historical purposes only.)
Common Space Scores Congresses 75 - 109 (4 January 2007)
Optimal Classification Scores Congresses 1 - 109 -- All Houses and
Senates in a Joint Space (3 January 2007)
Rank Ordering of the 109th Senate (With Jeff Lewis, 31 December 2006)
Rank Ordering of the 109th House (With Jeff Lewis, 31 December 2006)
109th House Roll Call Data (With Jeff Lewis, 30 December 2006)
109th Senate Roll Call Data (With Jeff Lewis, 30 December 2006)
W-NOMINATE Parametric Bootstrap Program (With Jeff Lewis, 24 October 2006)
Bayes by the Beach
The Last 50 Roll Call Votes in the U.S. Senate (With Royce Carroll and
Jeff Lewis, Updated 7 July 2006)
The Senate Vote on Samuel Alito (With Royce Carroll, Jeff Lewis,
and Howard Rosenthal, Updated 30 January 2006)
The 16 December 2005 Iraq Resolution Vote in the 109th House (19 December 2005)
The Evolving Influence of
Psychometrics in Political Science. (December 2005)
The Decline and Rise of Party Polarization in Congress During
the Twentieth Century. (October 2005)
The Senate Vote on John Roberts (With Royce Carroll, Jeff Lewis,
and Howard Rosenthal, Updated 29 September 2005)
Rank Ordering of the 108th House (Updated, 23 August 2005)
Roll Call Matrices Houses and Senates 1 - 89 (15 August 2005)
Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting (6 July 2005)
Roll Call Matrices Houses and Senates 90 - 101 (6 July 2005)
Rank Ordering of the 108th Senate (27 October 2004)
Is John Kerry A Liberal? (13 October 2004)
Inferring Universals From Grammatical Variation:
Multidimensional Scaling for Typological Analysis (with William Croft, 19 July 2004)
Two Dimensional Movie of the 1st to the
107th Houses and Senates (1 February 2004, 215 megabytes!!)
Two Dimensional Animated Gif for the 1st to the
107th Houses and Senates (10 January 2004)
Most Frequently Viewed Pages
1 July 2006 - 31 December 2006
Voteview Website Traffic 2002 - 2010
Note that the vertical axes vary from year to year because of large traffic spikes.
There is a gap from December 2004 into 2005 because the website was moved from
the University of Houston to UCSD.
Picture of the Day
Stella, Pearl, and Jewel have a Cat Party on July 4th!
