Party Elites in the United States, 1984: Republican and Democratic Party Leaders

Jackson, John S.; Bositis, David A.; Baer, Denise L.

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“…The variables included in the calibration model are selected using sociology and social-psychology research that examine how individual and group socialization influence attitude formation. To estimate the influence of these background characteristics, a regression model is run using data from Jackson, Bositis, and Baer's (1988) Party Elites in the United States, 1984: Republican and Democratic Party Leaders. This study is used because it offers a wide range of background variables on a broad sample of party, whereas other studies examine only convention delegates.…”

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“…Validation is performed in two ways. 9 First, cross-validation was performed by comparing elite, ideological self-placement in the 1984 Party Elites study (Jackson et al, 1988) with the scores generated by using coefficients estimated from the 1984 study on the elite background data from 1980 to produce predicted values for ideology in 1980. These predicted values correlate with the actual, ideological self-placement of political elites in 1980 at about .67, a high correlation given the measurement error inherent in survey data.…”

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“…Party Elites data are taken fromJackson, Bositis, and Baer (1988). NOTE: Bootstrapped estimates are recovered by adding the bias of the observed coefficient.…”

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Independently Validating Ideology Measures

Bishin

2003

American Politics Research

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Measures of political ideology are central to a broad range of political science scholarship. However, despite extensive evaluation of the relative characteristics of vote-based ideology measures, little scholarship examines their validity independent of legislator behavior. Ideological validity is overlooked because all existing measures are action based. To address this gap, this article applies an instrumental-variables technique called FILTER to assess the validity of two important measures of legislator ideology: NOMINATE and interest-group ratings. The technique is also applied to investigate whether the measured action-based ideology suffers from agenda bias. The results show that the measures produce valid estimates of legislator ideology. Moreover, FILTER offers an important alternative to existing action-based measures of ideology that might be inappropriate for use in some settings, such as when the dependent variable being studied is also action based.

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