Committee Markups and Floor Voting

调查人员将对美国众议院和参议院的委员会加价投票和发言权点名投票进行综合空间分析。他们已经收集了从1999年9月开始的全面的加价数据集，并将在项目期间增加这一数据。所有数据都将在网上发布，并集成到用于国会点名的Voteview软件中。调查人员将结合方法学的发展，将伦德勒根开发的小委员会方法与普尔和罗森塔尔等人开发的大型立法方法结合起来。这项分析测试了一些理论假设，这些假设涉及议会投票与委员会投票的维度。例如，委员会是像众议院一样，主要是按照自由-保守路线划分的，还是更复杂？调查人员还将测试委员会在多大程度上是偏好异常值。某些利益在委员会中是否有过多的代表？

The Investigators will conduct an integrated spatial analysis of committee markup voting and floor roll call voting in the United States House of Representatives and Senate. They have collected a comprehensive data set of markups staring in September, 1999 and will add to this during the project. All data will be web published and integrated into the VOTEVIEW software for congressional roll calls. The Investigators will incorporate methodological developments integrating the small committee methods developed by Londregan with the large legislature methods developed by Poole and Rosenthal and others. The analysis tests a number of theoretical hypotheses that concern the dimensionality of floor vs. committee voting. For example, are committees drawn, like the floor, mainly on liberal-conservative lines or are they more complex? The Investigators will also test the extent to which committees are preference outliers. Are certain interests over represented on committees?