JOP 1998 Codebook

* This is the codebook for the dataset necessary to 
* replicate results of Moscardelli, Haspel, and Wike, 
* "Party Building through Campaign Finance Reform:  
*Conditional Party Government in the 104th Congress."  
* Journal of Politics 60.3(August): 691-704.
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* Author contact information:
*
* Vincent G. Moscardelli (vmoscardelli@polsci.umass.edu)
* Moshe Haspel (mhaspel@spelman.edu)

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*List of variables on the working file

* GET FILE='C:\ . . . Replication_Data_MHW_1998.sav'.


*Display Dictionary

Name (Position) Label

name (1) Name
    Measurement Level: Nominal
    Column Width: 26  Alignment: Left
    Print Format: A26
    Write Format: A26

distnom (2) District (NOMINATE)
    Measurement Level: Scale
    Column Width: 8  Alignment: Right
    Print Format: F8
    Write Format: F8

vote (3) Vote (DV)
    Measurement Level: Nominal
    Column Width: 8  Alignment: Right
    Print Format: F5
    Write Format: F5
    Missing Values: -9

top12 (4) Member of the Leadership
    Measurement Level: Nominal
    Column Width: 8  Alignment: Right
    Print Format: F6.2
    Write Format: F6.2

dleadr (5) Distance to the Right of Speaker Gingrich
    Measurement Level: Scale
    Column Width: 8  Alignment: Right
    Print Format: F7.2
    Write Format: F7.2

dleadl (6) Distance to the Left of Speaker Gingrich
    Measurement Level: Scale
    Column Width: 8  Alignment: Right
    Print Format: F7.2
    Write Format: F7.2

labthou (7) Contributions from Labor PACs (in thousands of dollars)
    Measurement Level: Scale
    Column Width: 8  Alignment: Right
    Print Format: F8.2
    Write Format: F8.2

security (8) Electoral Security
    Measurement Level: Scale
    Column Width: 8  Alignment: Right
    Print Format: F9.2
    Write Format: F9.2

pc$indst (9) Contributions from Individuals Who Reside Inside District 
(%)
    Measurement Level: Scale
    Column Width: 8  Alignment: Right
    Print Format: F9.2
    Write Format: F9.2