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Published May 1985 | Version public
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A spatial model for legislative roll call analysis

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Abstract

A general nonlinear logit model is used to analyze political choice data. The model assumes probabilistic voting based on a spatial utility function. The parameters of the utility function and the spatial coordinates of the choices and the choosers can all be estimated on the basis of observed choices. Ordinary Guttman scaling is a degenerate case of this model. Estimation of the model is implemented in the NOMINATE program for one dimensional analysis of two alternative choices with no nonvoting. The robustness and face validity of the program outputs are evaluated on the basis of roll call voting data for the U.S. House and Senate.

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© 1985 Midwest Political Science Association. Manuscript submitted 4 August 1983; Final manuscript received 14 August 1984. This work was initiated while Poole was a Political Economy Fellow at Carnegie-Mellon and continued while Rosenthal was a Fairchild Scholar at Caltech. We also acknowledge the substantial computational support of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie-Mellon. The paper has benefited from comments made in seminars at Caltech, Carnegie-Mellon, and Stanford. This work was supported by NSF Grant SES-831-390. Formerly SSWP 487.

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SES-831390
Carnegie Mellon University
Sherman Fairchild Foundation

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