Record of American democracy, 1984-1990 [electronic resource] / principal investigators, Gary King ... [et al.].

Format
Data file
Language
English
Published/​Created
Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, [1998].
Description
  • Computer numeric (337 files), text, and maps data, and computer program (Adobe Acrobat Reader).
  • Numeric, text, and mapping files (aggregated electoral and census data in HTML and .PDF file formats, and geographic boundary files for drawing maps)

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Summary note
  • 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
  • "May 1998."
  • Title from Readme file.
Type of data
Numeric, text, and mapping files (aggregated electoral and census data in HTML and .PDF file formats, and geographic boundary files for drawing maps)
System details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Other format(s)
Also available in an online version.
Other title(s)
ROAD, 1984-1990
OCLC
39483181
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