Votes recorded on each ballot by each member of the Scottish Parliament in 2008 along with information about party affiliation.
VotesParties
Votes is a data.frame with 103582 rows and 3 variables.
an identifier for the bill
the name of the member of parliament
1 means a vote for, -1 a vote against. 0 is an abstention.
Parties is a data.frame with 134 rows, one for each member of parliament, and 2 variables.
the name of the political party the member belongs to
the name of the member of parliament
An object of class data.frame with 134 rows and 2 columns.
Almost all of the members of parliament belongs to a political party. This table identifies that party. These data were provided by Caroline Ettinger and form part of her senior honor's project at Macalester College. Prof. Andrew Beveridge supervised the thesis. Ms. Ettinger used the vote data to explore how to extract the party association of members purely from voting records. The Parties data was used to evaluate the success of methods.