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	Roll-Call Analysis	NOMINATE
Πεδίο	Political Science	Political Science
Οικογένεια	Latent structure	Latent structure
Έτος προέλευσης	—	1985
Δημιουργός	Spatial-voting tradition; Poole, Rosenthal, Clinton, Jackman, Rivers	Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
Τύπος	Scaling and analysis of legislative binary-choice data	Spatial scaling model of roll-call voting
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Poole, K. T. (2000). Nonparametric Unfolding of Binary Choice Data. Political Analysis, 8(3), 211–237.	Poole, K. T., & Rosenthal, H. (1985). A Spatial Model for Legislative Roll Call Analysis. American Journal of Political Science, 29(2), 357–384.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Roll call voting analysis, Legislative vote scaling, Roll-call scaling, Optimal classification of votes	DW-NOMINATE, W-NOMINATE, Nominal Three-Step Estimation, Poole-Rosenthal scores
Συναφείς	3	3
Σύνοψη	Roll-call analysis is the study of recorded legislative votes to recover the structure of political conflict — the ideological positions of legislators, the dimensionality of the issue space, and the cohesion of parties. It encompasses parametric spatial and item-response models that estimate latent ideal points, nonparametric scaling such as optimal classification that maximizes correctly classified votes without distributional assumptions, and descriptive cohesion statistics like the Rice index. Together these tools turn a matrix of yea/nay votes into a map of who agrees with whom and why.	NOMINATE — Nominal Three-step Estimation — is the family of spatial scaling procedures developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal to recover legislators' ideological positions from roll-call votes. Each legislator and the yea and nay outcomes of each vote are placed in a low-dimensional space, and a normal (Gaussian) deterministic utility plus a random shock governs choices. Fitted by maximum likelihood, NOMINATE produces the canonical ideal-point coordinates used to chart polarization across two centuries of the U.S. Congress, with the dynamic DW-NOMINATE variant allowing positions to drift smoothly over time.