Record of American democracy, 1984-1990 / principal investigators, Gary King ... [and others].

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

King, Gary.

Record Of American Democracy.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR codebook ; 2162.

ICPSR ; 2162

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elections--United States--States--Databases.

Elections.

Elections--United States--Databases.

Social surveys.

Databases.

United States--Population--Statistics--Databases.

United States.

Population.

Social surveys--United States--Databases.

United States--Census, 1990.

Genre:

Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 CD-ROM ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

monochrome

Edition:

First ICPSR version.

Other Title:

ROAD, 1984-1990

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, [1998]

System Details:

Systems requirements: Any computer that can read ISO 9660 CD-ROM discs: DOS, Windows, UNIX (some files require dos2unix), or Macintosh (using Apple System 7.0+ or version 6.08 and PC emulation software); ARCView 2.0 or similar software is required for mapping files; Adobe Acrobat Reader (included on disc required to access .PDF files; MS CD-ROM extension (v. 2.0 or above) to MS-DOS; SPSS data analysis software may be used; CD-ROM capable of reading 650Mb of data is recommended.

data file

Summary:

The Record of American Democracy (ROAD) data provide election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic details about the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation. The NSF-supported ROAD project spans every state in the country from 1984 through 1990 (including some off-year elections). The data include every election at and above the state House level, along with party registration and other variables in each state.

These data enable research on topics such as electoral behavior, the political characteristics of local community context, electoral geography, the role of minority groups in elections and legislative redistricting, split ticket voting and divided government, and elections under federalism. In addition to these variables, these files include an additional 3,725 variables merged from the 1990 U.S. Census for 47,327 aggregate units called MCD Groups which, together, completely tile the U.S. landmass.

Notes:

Title from Readme file.

"May 1998."

Other Format:

Record of American democracy, 1984-1990

OCLC:

39483181