basicspace (version 0.25)

LC1980: 1980 Liberal-Conservative Scales.

Description

Liberal-Conservative 7-point scales from the 1980 National Election Study. Includes (in order) self-placement, and rankings of Carter, Reagan, Kennedy, Anderson, Republican party, Democratic Party. Stored as a matrix of integers. The numbers 0, 8, and 9 are considered to be missing values.

Usage

data(LC1980)

Value

The data is formatted as an integer matrix with the following elements.

LC1980

matrix, containing reported placements of various stimuli on a 7 point Liberal-Conservative scale:

Self

Self-placement on 7 point scale.

Carter

Placement of Carter on 7 point scale.

Reagan

Placement of Reagan on 7 point scale.

Kennedy

Placement of Kennedy on 7 point scale.

Anderson

Placement of Anderson on 7 point scale.

Republicans

Placement of Republicans on 7 point scale.

Democrats

Placement of Democrats on 7 point scale.

Author

Keith Poole

Howard Rosenthal

Jeffrey Lewis

James Lo

Royce Carroll

Christopher Hare

References

John H. Aldrich and Richard D. McKelvey. 1977. ``A Method of Scaling with Applications to the 1968 and 1972 Presidential Elections.'' American Political Science Review 71(1): 111-130. doi: 10.2307/1956957

David A. Armstrong II, Ryan Bakker, Royce Carroll, Christopher Hare, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. 2021. Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment. 2nd ed. Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Series. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. doi: 10.1201/9781315197609

Thomas R. Palfrey and Keith T. Poole. 1987. ``The Relationship between Information, Ideology, and Voting Behavior.'' American Journal of Political Science 31(3): 511-530. doi: 10.2307/2111281

Keith T. Poole, Jeffrey B. Lewis, Howard Rosenthal, James Lo, and Royce Carroll. 2016. ``Recovering a Basic Space from Issue Scales in R.'' Journal of Statistical Software 69(7): 1-21. doi:10.18637/jss.v069.i07

Keith T. Poole. 1998. ``Recovering a Basic Space From a Set of Issue Scales.'' American Journal of Political Science 42(3): 954-993. doi: 10.2307/2991737

See Also

'aldmck', 'summary.aldmck', 'plot.aldmck', 'plot.cdf'.

Examples

  ### Loads the Liberal-Conservative scales from the 1980 ANES.
  data(LC1980)
  
  result <- aldmck(data=LC1980, polarity=2, respondent=1, missing=c(0,8,9), verbose=TRUE)

  summary(result)
  plot(result)