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Rank Orderings for all Houses and Senates -- 1^st to 111^th Congresses (27 August 2010)
"A Spatial Model for Legislative Roll Call Analysis." GSIA Working Paper 5-83-84, September 1983 (With Howard Rosenthal). (This is the 1983 original -- our first paper on NOMINATE. Scanned upside down unfortunately but easy to read once it is printed. For historical purposes only.)

R Package for Aldrich-McKelvey and Basic Space Scaling (20 May 2010)
DW-NOMINATE Probabilities for Legislator Choices: 1^st to 111^th Congresses (16 June 2010)
Cutting Line Angle Files for the House and Senate 1^st to 111^th Congresses (16 June 2010)
One-Congress-at-a-Time DW-NOMINATE (Nokken-Poole) data for the House and Senate 1^st to 111^th (2009) Congresses (16 June 2010)
Percent Voting on the Winning Side by Member -- Houses/Senates 1 - 111 (16 June 2010)
Common Space Scores Congresses 75 - 111 (15 February 2010)
Rank Ordering of the 111^th Senate (27 December 2009)
Rank Ordering of the 111^th House (27 December 2009)
"NOMINATE and American Political History: A Primer." by Phil Everson (Swarthmore), Rick Valelly (Swarthmore), and Jim Wiseman (Agnes Smith)
Common Space DW-NOMINATE Scores 1^st to 110^th Congresses
DW-NOMINATE Program With Examples
Who is More Liberal, Clinton or Obama?
Two Dimensional Movie of the 1^st to 110^th Houses and Senates (high resolution, 547 Megabytes!!)
Two Dimensional Movie of the 1^st to 109^th Houses and Senates (high resolution, 718 Megabytes!!)
Rank Ordering of the 110^th Senate (with Jeff Lewis, 28 June 2007)
DW-NOMINATE Scores with Bootstrapped Standard Errors, Congresses 1 - 110 (with Royce Carroll, Jeff Lewis, James Lo, and Howard Rosenthal, 18 April 2008)
Current vs. Past DW-NOMINATE Scores: 1 - 110 Houses/Senates to 1 - 105 Houses/Senates (18 April 2008)
Rank Ordering of the 110^th House (with Jeff Lewis, 12 May 2007)
The 23 March 2007 House Vote on the Iraq War (with Jeff Lewis, 26 March 2007)
Does Gerrymandering Cause Polarization? (with Nolan McCarty and Howard Rosenthal, February 2007)
The Unidimensional Congress, 1919-84. GSIA Working Paper 44-84-85 (With Howard Rosenthal) (This is the 1985 original -- For historical purposes only.)
Common Space Scores Congresses 75 - 109 (4 January 2007)

Format of Common Space Scores (4 January 2007)

Optimal Classification Scores Congresses 1 - 109 -- All Houses and Senates in a Joint Space (3 January 2007)
Rank Ordering of the 109^th Senate (With Jeff Lewis, 31 December 2006)
Rank Ordering of the 109^th House (With Jeff Lewis, 31 December 2006)
109^th House Roll Call Data (With Jeff Lewis, 30 December 2006)
109^th Senate Roll Call Data (With Jeff Lewis, 30 December 2006)
W-NOMINATE Parametric Bootstrap Program (With Jeff Lewis, 24 October 2006)
Bayes by the Beach
The Last 50 Roll Call Votes in the U.S. Senate (With Royce Carroll and Jeff Lewis, Updated 7 July 2006)
The Senate Vote on Samuel Alito (With Royce Carroll, Jeff Lewis, and Howard Rosenthal, Updated 30 January 2006)
The 16 December 2005 Iraq Resolution Vote in the 109^th House (19 December 2005)
The Evolving Influence of Psychometrics in Political Science. (December 2005)
The Decline and Rise of Party Polarization in Congress During the Twentieth Century. (October 2005)
The Senate Vote on John Roberts (With Royce Carroll, Jeff Lewis, and Howard Rosenthal, Updated 29 September 2005)
Rank Ordering of the 108^th House (Updated, 23 August 2005)
Roll Call Matrices Houses and Senates 1 - 89 (15 August 2005)
Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting (6 July 2005)
Roll Call Matrices Houses and Senates 90 - 101 (6 July 2005)
Rank Ordering of the 108^th Senate (27 October 2004)
Is John Kerry A Liberal? (13 October 2004)

Inferring Universals From Grammatical Variation: Multidimensional Scaling for Typological Analysis (with William Croft, 19 July 2004)

Graphs and Tables for "Inferring Universals From Grammatical Variation: Multidimensional Scaling for Typological Analysis" (with William Croft, updated, 2 August 2004)


Two Dimensional Movie of the 1^st to the 107^th Houses and Senates (1 February 2004, 215 megabytes!!)
Two Dimensional Animated Gif for the 1^st to the 107^th Houses and Senates (10 January 2004)

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Rank Order of the 109^th Senate
William H. Gates
American Economic History
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Railroads: The First Big Business
Is John Kerry a Liberal?
DW-NOMINATE Data
W-NOMINATE Computer Program
American Political Development
Rank Order of the 109^th House
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