Attributes of Federal Independent Regulatory Commissioners, 1887-2000: Construction of a Multi-User Data Base

该项目的主要目标是收集自1892年以来被任命为独立联邦机构的委员和董事会成员的个人、职业和政治属性的广泛而明确的数据库。该数据库将包括资格和背景变量，如政党关系、性别、种族和民族、年龄、教育程度以及重要联邦机构整个历史的前后就业情况。此外，该数据库将包括以前和以后的职业经历的时间顺序，以及所有相关任命、再任命和任期届满的时间。这些信息与座位号的详细文档（也将包含在数据集中）一起，将允许对会员变更和过渡进行详细分析。这个项目产生的近期成果将是促进对独立机构任用模式的研究。该项目的长期目标是允许连接到委员的投票数据，并在独立机构开展基于委员的决策研究。该数据集预计将记录1887年至2000年间15个独立机构的大约1150个不同的任命（或800个不同的任命）。该数据库将被其他对该主题感兴趣的学者广泛使用。

The primary objective of this project is the assemblage of an extensive and definitive database on the personal, career, and political attributes of commissioners and board members who have been appointed to independent federal agencies since 1892. The database will include qualification and background variables, such as political party affiliation, gender, race and ethnicity, age, education, and prior and subsequent employment for the entire history of a broad collection of important federal agencies. In addition, the database will include the temporal sequence of prior and subsequent career experiences, and the timing of all relevant appointment, reappointment, and term expiration dates. This information, together with the careful documentation of seat numbers that will also be included in the dataset, will allow detailed analyses of membership change and transitions. The near-term product arising from this project will be to facilitate studies of appointment patterns to independent agencies. The longer-term objective of this project is to allow linking to voting data for commissioners, and the development of commissioner-based research on decision-making at independent agencies. The dataset is expected to document approximately 1150 distinct appointments (or 800 distinct appointees) at 15 independent agencies between 1887 and 2000.This database will be used widely by other scholars interested in this topic.