| 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 forthcoming article, 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).
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 illustrates how the agency-level estimated Common Space scores were calculated. Specifically, the code:
1. Downloads campaign contribution records for each agency's employees during 1993-2012.
2. Calculates the mean Common Space score of the incumbent politicians who received contributions from the agency’s employees, weighted by the dollar amount of each contribution.