Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting
by
Keith T. Poole
Cambridge University Press, 2005
Chapter 3
Miscellaneous
Optimal Classification (OC) Program
Optimal Classification Scores and Related Files
How Optimal Classification Works in One Dimension
Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting.
Technical Supplement to Chapter 3: The
Optimal Classification Method (PDF, 7 March 2004)
R Programs
Coombs_Mesh.r: R Program to create
Symmetric and Asymmetric Complete Coombs Meashes
Figure 3.8A: Twelve Legislator Example with
Normal Vector Line
Figure 3.8B: Legislator Points Projected
onto Normal Vector Line
Figure 3.10A: Cutting Plane Procedure (Initialization)
Figure 3.10B: Cutting Plane Procedure (1st Iteration)
Figure 3.10C: Cutting Plane Procedure (1st Iteration
Least Squares Line)
Figure 3.12A: Cutting Plane Procedure
(2nd Iteration)
Figure 3.12B: Cutting Plane Procedure
(5th Iteration)
Figure 3.12C: Cutting Plane Procedure
(7th Iteration
Figure 3.13A,B,C: Legislator Procedure
(Program creates 3 graphs)
Figure 3.14: 1846 Repeal of the Corn Laws
Book Chapters
Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Geometry of Parliamentary Roll Call Voting
Chapter 3: The Optimal Classification Method
Chapter 4: Probabilistic Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting
Chapter 5: Practical Issues in Computing Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting
Chapter 6: Conducting Natural Experiments with Roll Calls
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Homework Problems
VOTEVIEW Blog
NOMINATE Data, Roll Call Data, and Software
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