Fording's State Ideology Data

This data set comes from Richard C. Fording (https://rcfording.com/state-ideology-data/) and used in Berry et al. (1998). The data set includes state ideology data (measured at the state/legislature and citizen levels), for each year between 1960 and 2018. These data will be updated as Fording updates the data.

Usage

Ideology

Format

A data frame with 3050 observations and 4 variables.

	state
state name	year
year measured	c_ideo
citizen ideology score	s_ideo
state level ideology score