sc9497 {pscl} | R Documentation |
votes from the United States Supreme Court, from 1994-1997
Description
This data set provides information on the United States Supreme Court
from 1994-1997. Votes included are non-unanimous.
Usage
data(sc9497)
Format
A list containing the elements:
- votes
- a matrix of the votes, 0=Nay, 1=Yea,
NA
=Abstained or missing data. The matrix columns are labeled with
vote.names
and the rows are labeled with legis.names
.
- legis.names
- a vector of the names of the nine Justices
sitting on the court at this time.
- party
- NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.
- state
- NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data
sets.
- district
- NULL; exists for consistency with House data sets.
- id
- NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.
- vote.names
- a vector of strings numbering the cases simply to
distinguish them from one another.
- desc
- a description of the data set.
Source
Harold J. Spaeth (1999). United States Supreme Court Judicial
Database, 1953-1997 Terms. Ninth edition. Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research. Ann Arbor,
Michigan. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
[Package
pscl version 1.03
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