Jowei Chen, Associate Professor, University of Michigan

Tim Johnson (Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University)

In a forthcoming article, we estimate the ideological scores of federal bureaucrats on the Poole and Rosenthal NOMINATE Common Space scale. We use campaign contributions of bureaucratic employees as a means of estimating these bureaucrats' ideologies and comparing these estimates with the Common Space scores of political actors in other institutions. Our method produces individual-level ideology estimates for bureaucratic employees listed in the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Central Personnel Data File (CPDF) in 2007 and 2010.

Chen_Johnson_CommonSpaceScores2007.txt
Chen_Johnson_CommonSpaceScores2010.txt

Variables:
year: Year in which CPDF was published (2007 or 2010)
OPMabbrev: Standardized 2-letter agency abbreviation in the Office of Personnel Management's Central Personnel Data File
OPMcode1: Standardized 4-character agency or subagency abbreviation in the Office of Personnel Management's Central Personnel Data File
agency: Agency Name
ST: State in which the employee's work station is located
county: County in which the employee's work station is located
fullname: Employee's name in the CPDF, listed as LAST, FIRST MIDDLE
title: Employee's title, as listed in the CPDF
Common Space: Employee's estimated Common Space DW-NOMINATE (first dimension), for employees that have made sufficient campaign contributions during 1979-2012

Individual-Level Ideology Estimates of US Federal Bureaucrats

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