John Carey data archive: legislative voting data dable

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Country	Chamber	Dates, Assemblies		# Votes	Vote-specific information^a	Legislator-specific information^b	Source
Country	Chamber	All variables format	Master-file format, for use with Stata do-files	# Votes	Vote-specific information^a	Legislator-specific information^b	Source
Argentina	Lower	1984-1997	1984-1997	214	D, TH	P,R	Eduardo Aleman (University of Houston)
Australia	Lower	May’96-July’98	May’96-July’98	457	D,TH	O,E,R,L	Carey & Christopher Kam (University of South Carolina, kam@gwm.sc.edu)
Brazil	Lower		Jan.’89-Dec.’89 March’90-Jan.’95 March’95-Dec.’98	28 195 452	D, TH, I, PR, GR	P, E, R, TS, L, LP	Argelina Figueireido (Centro Brasileiro de Analise e Planejamento, argelina@cebrap.org.br) & Fernando Limongi (University of São Paulo, Brazil, flimongi@cebrap.org.br)
Canada	Lower	May’94-Dec.’95; Feb.’96-April’97	May’94-Dec.’95; Feb.’96-April’97	402 333	D, TH, I, PR, GR	P, E, R, TS, S	Carey & Christopher Kam (University of South Carolina, kam@gwm.sc.edu)
Chile	Lower	May‘97–Jan.’98; Oct..’98–May’00	May‘97–Jan.’98; Oct..’98–May’00	215; 522	D, TH, I	P, C, E, R, TS	Carey & Scott Morgenstern (Duke University, smorgens@duke.edu)
Costa Rica	Unicameral	1967-2000	1967-2000	17	D, TH, I	P, R, TS	Carey
Czech Repub.	Lower	1993-1996; 1996-1998	1993-1996; 1996-1998	5,067; 4,470	D,TH	P, C, E, R	Carey
Ecuador	Unicameral	1996-2002	1996-2002	30	D, TH, I	P, R, TS, S	Carey
Guatemala	Unicameral	Dec.’94-April’00	Dec.’94-1995 Dec. '96-1999 2000	59	D, TH, I	P	Carey
Israel	Unicameral	Oct.’99-Nov.’99 Dec.’99 (budget)	Oct.’99-Nov.’99 Dec.’99 (budget)	249 137	D,TH,I	P,C,E,TS,L,LP	Carey
Mexico	Lower	Oct.’98-April’00	Oct.’98-April’00	299	D, TH	N.A.^c	Carey & Jeffrey Weldon (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, jweldon@itam.mx)
New Zealand	Unicameral	Nov.’90-Aug.’93 Dec.’93-Nov.’94	Nov.’90-Aug.’93 Dec.’93-Nov.’94	592 185	D, TH	P,C,T,E,R,TS,L
Nicaragua	Unicameral	Jan.’00-Sep.’00	Jan.’00-Sep.’00	694	D,TH	P,E,R	Carey
Peru	Unicameral	Mar.’99-June’00; Aug.’00-Dec.’00 Aug.’01-Oct.’01	Mar.’99-June’00; Aug.’00-Dec.’00 Aug.’01-Oct.’01	689 332 103	D, TH, I	P, E	Carey
Philippines	Lower	July’95-April’97	July’95-April’97	147	D, TH, I	P, T, R	Carey
Philippines	Upper	Oct.’95-Feb.’98	Oct.’95-Feb.’98	505	D, TH, I	P, R	Carey
Poland	Lower	Oct.’97-May’99	Oct.’97-May’99	3,045	D,TH	P,C,E,R	Carey
Russia	Lower	Jan.’96-May’97	Jan.’96-May’97	356	D, TH, I	P, T, R, LP	Thomas Remington (Emory University, polstfr@emory.edu)
United States	Lower		Jan.’91-Oct.’98	4473	D	N.A.^c	Keith Poole (University of Houston, kpoole@uh.edu
United States	Upper		Jan.’91-Oct.’98	2805	D	N.A.^c	Keith Poole (University of Houston, kpoole@uh.edu
Uruguay	Joint^h		Oct.’85-Nov.’89 Dec.’90-Aug.’94	41 22	D, TH	N.A.^c	Scott Morgenstern (Duke University, smorgens@duke.edu)

^a D=date; TH=threshold to pass motion; I=issue area; PR=party leadership recommend positions; GR=government recommended positions

^b P=party; C=coalition; ; T=tier, for legislators in 2-tier, SMD/PR electoral systems; E=member of executive’s coalition; R=region/province/state/district;

TS=# of terms served; L=leadership position in assembly, if relevant; LP=list position, if elected from PR list; S=sex

^cData are aggregated at level of party (e.g. Party A: 85 aye, 15 nay; Party B: 30 aye, 70 nay; etc.) rather than at the level of individual legislator.

^hIn Uruguay, votes on whether to override presidential vetos must be recorded. Such votes are taken in joint session of both chambers. The Uruguayan data considered here includes only such votes.

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