The links on this page provide data and documentation related to the state citizen and government ideology measures originally reported in:
William D. Berry, Evan J. Ringquist, Richard C. Fording, Russell L. Hanson. 1998. Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the American States, 1960-93. American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Jan.), pp. 327-348.
Updated Measures of Citizen and Government Ideology
(Last Updated 06/18/2018)*
- Updated Citizen Ideology (1960-2016) and Government Ideology (1960-2017)
- Documentation (download)
- Data: (Stata format Excel format)
Our Exchange with Enns and Koch
- Our exchange with Peter Enns and Julianna Koch, published in State Politics and Policy Quarterly:
- “Assessing the Validity of Enns and Koch’s Measure of State Policy Mood. (Berry, Ringquist, Fording, Hanson)”
- “State Policy Mood: The Importance of Over-time Dynamics.” (Enns and Koch)
- Unpublished response to Enns and Koch’s rejoinder: “A Reply to Enns and Koch’s ‘State Policy Mood: The Importance of Over-Time Dynamics.’ ” (Berry, Fording and Hanson)
Replication Data from Previous Publications
Nominate Version of State Government Ideology, 1960-2004 (From 2010 SPPQ Article)
- Documentation (download); Data download: (Stata file)
- Our response to Shor and McCarty’s 2011 article in the American Political Science Review (Published in State Politics and Policy Quarterly): “A New Measure of State Government Ideology, and New Evidence that an Old Measure Performs Well.”
Data & Documentation for Original Measures of Citizen and Gov’t Ideology (1960-93):
- Original Citizen and Government Ideology Measures, 1960-1993 (download)
- Unpublished Supplement to 1998 AJPS article (download)
- Replication dataset and documentation for citizen and government ideology measures reported in 1998 AJPS article (download)
- Data and documentation necessary to replicate analyses presented in Table 1 of the AJPS article (download)
*For information concerning previously released updates of the citizen and government ideology scores (including data requests), please contact Richard Fording, University of Alabama.