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NOMINATE

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.

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NOMINATE (Nominal Three-Step Estimation of Spatial Voting)
Taxonomic method record · latent-structure / political-science
  • Poole, K. T., & Rosenthal, H. (1985). A Spatial Model for Legislative Roll Call Analysis. American Journal of Political Science, 29(2), 357–384. · DOI 10.2307/2111172
  • Poole, K. T., & Rosenthal, H. (1997). Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting. New York: Oxford University Press. · ISBN 9780195055771
  • Carroll, R., Lewis, J. B., Lo, J., Poole, K. T., & Rosenthal, H. (2009). Measuring Bias and Uncertainty in DW-NOMINATE Ideal Point Estimates via the Parametric Bootstrap. Political Analysis, 17(3), 261–275. · DOI 10.1093/pan/mpp005
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Same method familyIdeal Point Estimationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRoll-Call Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyWordfish Scalingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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