Replication Data Sets

Data for "Has Cable Ended the Golden Age of Presidential Television?" (with Matthew A. Baum) American Political Science Review, March 1999, pp. 99-114.

Data File (Excel format for download)

Data for "Economic Class and Popular Support for Franklin Roosevelt in War and Peace," (with Matthew A. Baum) Public Opinion Quarterly, Summer 2001, pp. 198-229.  

Data File (Excel format for download)

Data File (tab-separated text for viewing and download)  

Data for "Congress and Americas Political Development: The Transformation of the Post Office from Patronage to Service. ( with Michael McDonald) 43 American Journal of Political Science, July 1999, pp. 792-811.  

Data File (Excel format for download)

Codebook (.doc format)

Veto Threat Bargaining with a Bicameral Congress (with Scott Guenther) Political Research Quarterly, June 2020

Riders before Obama 

Riders during Obama

Other replication data available at Political Research Quarterly

Statements of Administration Policy: 1985-2016.

The original data set consist of SAPs threatening a veto. These text files are available on cd rom and most research universities and online here.

For individual texts, visit the American Presidency Project at https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/.

Party Ballots, Reform and Transformation of Americas's Electoral System (data for chapter 5)

State Legislative Elections data (sources)

Arizona 1914-1940 1 2

California 1879-1940 1 2

Colorado 1902-1940 1 2

Connecticut 1849-1940 1 2 3

Idaho 1894-1940 1 2

Illinois 1880-1940 1 2

Indiana 1888-1940 1 2

Iowa 1901-1942 1 2

Kansas 1863-1946 1 2

Maine 1872-1875 1

Maryland 1839-1942 1 2

Massachusetts 1870-1942 1 2 3 4

Michigan 1894-1942 1 2

Minnesota 1890-1912 1 2

Missouri 1878-1942 1 2

Nebraska 1898-1900 1 2

Nevada 1863-1942 1 2

New Hampshire 1888-1942 1 2

New Jersey 1869-1940 1

New Mexico 1912-1940 1 2

New York 1859-1944 1 2

North Dakota 1889-1913 1 2

Ohio 1869-1940 1 2

Pennsylvania 1874-1942 1 2

Rhode Island 1894-1940 1 2

Washington 1889-1942 1 2

West Virginia 1898-1942 1 2

Wisconsin 1871-1940 1 2

Wyoming 1890-1940 1 2