Votes {mdsr}

Votes from Scottish Parliament

Description

Votes recorded on each ballot by each member of the Scottish Parliament in 2008 along with information about party affiliation.

Usage

Votes

Parties

Format

Votes is a data.frame with 103582 rows and 3 variables.

bill

an identifier for the bill

name

the name of the member of parliament

vote

1 means a vote for, -1 a vote against. 0 is an abstention.

Parties is a data.frame with 134 rows, one for each member of parliament, and 2 variables.

party

the name of the political party the member belongs to

name

the name of the member of parliament

An object of class data.frame with 134 rows and 2 columns.

Details

Almost all of the members of parliament belongs to a political party. This table identifies that party. These data were provided by Caroline Ettinger and form part of her senior honor's project at Macalester College. Prof. Andrew Beveridge supervised the thesis. Ms. Ettinger used the vote data to explore how to extract the party association of members purely from voting records. The Parties data was used to evaluate the success of methods.