Exercise dataset for Chapter 13. Texas and Arkansas assign newly elected state senators to two-year or four-year terms by lottery, which makes term length experimentally manipulated rather than chosen.
Format
A data frame with 124 rows and 6 columns:
- year
Legislative session. The 1993 sessions are coded 19931 and 19932, so the column has four distinct values rather than three
- party
Senator's party,
"Dem."or"Rep."- dshort_term
Assigned term length,
"2 years"or"4 years"- votesh_incumb
Incumbent vote share
- usrepvotesh_dem
Democratic vote share for US Representative in the district
- bills_intro
Bills introduced by the senator
Source
Titiunik, R. (2010). Drawing Your Senator from a Jar: Term Length and
Legislative Behavior. Working paper. ISPS Data Archive study D081
doi:10.60600/YU/VUH8KD
, file 42333 (Titiunik_WorkingPaper_2010). Built
by data-raw/exercise_datasets.R.