Ideology {polimetrics}

Fording's State Ideology Data

Description

This data set comes from Richard C. Fording (https://rcfording.com/state-ideology-data/) and used in Berry et al. (1998). The data set includes state ideology data (measured at the state/legislature and citizen levels), for each year between 1960 and 2018. These data will be updated as Fording updates the data.

Usage

Ideology

Format

A data frame with 3050 observations and 4 variables.

state	state name
year	year measured
c_ideo	citizen ideology score
s_ideo	state level ideology score