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现场唱名投票进行综合空间分析。他们从1999年9月开始收集了一套全面的标记数据集，并将在项目期间补充这些数据。所有数据将在网上发布，并集成到VOTEVIEW软件中，供国会点名使用。调查人员将纳入方法学的发展，将伦敦德根开发的小型委员会方法与普尔和罗森塔尔等人开发的大型立法机构方法结合起来。该分析测试了一些理论假设，这些假设涉及到众议院与委员会投票的维度。例如，委员会是像众议院一样，主要按照自由派和保守派的界线划分，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?