Interpretational Challenges with Ideal Point Models

1 · John Myles White · Jan. 20, 2019, 4:53 p.m.
As a graduate student, I came to love working with the roll call voting data sets that have been compiled for the United States Congress by political scientists like Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. These datasets can be represented in simplified form as matrices in which the rows correspond to legislators and the columns correspond […]...