| Jowei Chen |
Associate Professor,
Department of Political Science,
University of Michigan
Department of Political Science,
University of Michigan
Contact:
Jowei Chen
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
5700 Haven Hall
505 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045
Telephone: (917) 861-7712
Email: jowei@umich.edu
Jowei Chen
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
5700 Haven Hall
505 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045
Telephone: (917) 861-7712
Email: jowei@umich.edu
Jowei Chen
US Federal Bureaucratic Agency Ideal Points Data
Authors:
In a 2014 article in the Journal of Theoretical Politics, we estimate the ideological scores of 74 US federal agencies on the Poole and Rosenthal NOMINATE Common Space scale.
We use campaign contributions of bureaucratic employees as a means of estimating the ideologies of bureaucratic agencies and comparing these estimates with the ideal points of political actors in other institutions. Our method produces agency-level estimates for each presidential term from Clinton I (1993-1996) to Obama I (2009-2012).
The methodology for the agency-level Common Space score estimates is described in a Supplemental Appendix.
Data Citation:
Download Agency-Level Ideal Point Estimates (Excel CSV data file):
Variables:
agency: Agency Name
agency2: Alternate Agency Name
OPMname: Standardized Agency Name in Office of Personnel Management's Central Personnel Data File
OPMcode: Standardized 2/4-Character Agency Code in Office of Personnel Management's Central Personnel Data File
clinton1: Agency's Estimated Common Space Score During 1st Clinton Term (1993-1996)
clinton2: Agency's Estimated Common Space Score During 2nd Clinton Term (1997-2000)
gwb1: Agency's Estimated Common Space Score During 1st George W. Bush Term (2001-2004)
gwb2: Agency's Estimated Common Space Score During 2nd George W. Bush Term (2005-2008)
obama: Agency's Estimated Common Space Score During 1st Obama Term (2009-2012)
Replication Code:
This .R file replicates the calculation of all estimated agency-level Common Space scores in our article. The code downloads and makes use of campaign contribution records for each agency's employees during 1993-2012.