tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412583847145043520.post5010747453964584684..comments2024-03-27T19:01:21.504-06:00Comments on Enik Rising: They can't both be rightSeth Maskethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17178036016555722068noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412583847145043520.post-70224707428725657442010-01-22T22:34:04.977-07:002010-01-22T22:34:04.977-07:00Good catch, Boris. I found the common space DW-NO...Good catch, Boris. I found the common space DW-NOMINATE scores <a href="ftp://voteview.com/junkord/HANDSL01111C20_BSSE.DTA" rel="nofollow">here in Stata format</a>, showing him as the most liberal. But those scores are constant across sessions. So apparently Feingold is just a weird one, casting so many unconventional votes that our methods don't do such a hot job describing him.Seth Maskethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17178036016555722068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412583847145043520.post-59393224180050424282010-01-22T20:20:18.921-07:002010-01-22T20:20:18.921-07:00Leave it to Poole to come up with NOMINATE in the ...Leave it to Poole to come up with NOMINATE in the 80s, and have a web site design from then, too!<br /><br />And there's actually an explanation for Feingold's change in ideology here ...<br /><br />http://voteview.ucsd.edu/feingold.htmbshorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08382365536021941653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412583847145043520.post-44631135154609682682010-01-22T18:06:39.605-07:002010-01-22T18:06:39.605-07:00So when I go to http://voteview.ucsd.edu/sen111.ht...So when I go to http://voteview.ucsd.edu/sen111.htm<br />and then scroll down, I see Feingold ranked as the 4th most conservative Dem, just as with the CJR estimates.<br /><br />Where do you see them ranking Feingold as the most liberal Dem?Will Bullockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00754349799080216835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412583847145043520.post-48619666660445681042010-01-22T17:46:04.377-07:002010-01-22T17:46:04.377-07:00No, near as I can tell, Poole and McCarty are both...No, near as I can tell, Poole and McCarty are both using the exact same roll call data (111th Congress) and coming up with staggeringly different results for Feingold.Seth Maskethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17178036016555722068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412583847145043520.post-6198932773255828322010-01-22T17:38:45.189-07:002010-01-22T17:38:45.189-07:00I don't think it's a NOMINATE v. Bayesian ...I don't think it's a NOMINATE v. Bayesian ideal point (CJR) issue. It seems as though Feingold has actually changed his voting considerably from the 110th to the 111th.<br /><br />In the 111th Congress he's most likely the 4th most conservative Democrat. In the 110th Congress he was around the 25th most conservative Democrat.<br /><br />Here's the code in R to duplicate my analysis:<br /><br />library(pscl)<br /><br />s111 <- readKH("http://adric.sscnet.ucla.edu/rollcall/static/S111.ord")<br />id.s111 <- ideal(s111, maxiter=100000, burnin=80020, thin=20, verbose=T)<br /><br />s110 <- readKH("ftp://voteview.com/sen110kh.ord", desc="110th U.S. Senate")<br />id.s110 <- ideal(s110, maxiter=100000, burnin=80020, thin=20, verbose=T)<br /><br />summary(id.s111)<br />summary(id.s110)Will Bullockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00754349799080216835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412583847145043520.post-82598947430488638772010-01-22T17:10:25.936-07:002010-01-22T17:10:25.936-07:00Actually, Poole and Rosenthal's website has co...Actually, Poole and Rosenthal's website has common space DW-NOMINATE scores going through the 111th now.Seth Maskethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17178036016555722068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412583847145043520.post-78376659465976589212010-01-22T16:46:54.593-07:002010-01-22T16:46:54.593-07:00Yah, it does sound strange to call Feingold a cons...Yah, it does sound strange to call Feingold a conservative Democrat. But, where are you looking for NOMINATE scores? Poole's website only has scores through the 110th. And one more thing: Jackman's score is just for the 111th. So the closest analogue would be W-NOMINATE which is Congress-by-Congress.bshorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08382365536021941653noreply@blogger.com