Collaborative Research on a Relational Database on Historical Congressional Stytistics, 1789-1992

9309877布鲁克郡这个项目创建了一个关于1788年至1992年国会历史的关系数据库，它第一次允许部长们轻松地使用与国会职业生涯、委员会、选举、政党和点名投票、总统关系和工作量有关的前所未有的一系列变量。将纳入新数据库的一些材料现已保存在单独的大学间政治和社会研究联盟数据库中；其他主要方面将新设。然而，该项目真正具有开创性的不仅是数据的范围和范围，而且是它的关系结构。学者们将能够轻松地将不同国会层面的数据联系起来，促进以迄今为止几乎不可能的方式研究它们之间的相互关系。项目参与者将把这些数据应用于他们自己的研究，包括国会职业生涯的发展；政党重组的体制影响；选举的体制影响；国会与总统关系的发展；以及国家立法机构解决部门冲突的潜力。这些只是学者们将能够更容易、更全面地从事的各种主题的几个例子。***

9309877 Brookshire This project creates a relational database on congressional history, 1788-1992, that permits secholars, for the first time, to use easily an unprecedented range of variables pertaining to congressional careers, committees, elections, party and roll call voting, presidential relations, and workload. Some of the material to be contained in the new database is now archived in separate Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research databases; other major aspects will be newly created. What is truly path-breaking about the project, however, is not only the range and scope of the data, but its relational structure. Scholars will be able to link easily data on different congressional dimensions, facilitating the study of their interrelationship in ways that until now have been virtually impossible. Project participants will apply this data to their own research on the development of congressional careers; the institutional impact of party realignments; the institutional effects of elections; the development of congressional-presidential relations; and the potential of national legislatures to resolve sectional conflict. These are but a few examples of the various kinds of topics scholars will be able to undertake more easily and more comprehensively. ***