political parties appearing in the U.S. Congress

Description

Numeric codes and names of 85 political parties appearing in Poole and Rosenthal's collection of U.S. Congressional roll calls.

Usage

data(partycodes)

Format

code

integer, numeric code for legislator appearing in Poole and Rosenthal rollcall data files

party

character, name of party

Details

The function readKH converts the integer codes into strings, via a table lookup in this data frame.

Source

Keith Poole's website: https://legacy.voteview.com/PARTY3.HTM

See Also

readKH