klarner politics

This Web page features data collected by Carl Klarner of Indiana State University for public use and is supported by the Indiana State University Center for Governmental Services.  Data on state politics and elections are presented, as well as codebooks associated with each dataset.  Please cite me if you use my data by referring to the following web link(http://www.indstate.edu/polisci/klarnerpolitics.htm).  Furthermore, I’d be grateful if you would let me know by e-mail (Carl.Klarner@indstate.edu) if you’ve downloaded these data so I can use that information in grant applications.

 

State Partisan Balance Data
Dataset includes number and percent of state legislators who are Democrats and Republicans, party control of state legislatures and governor’s offices, and different measures of party control of state institutions for the years 1937 to 2011.  Also includes variables that indicate what percentage of legislators are up for election in a year and whether there is a gubernatorial election.  “Source Files” give documentation on coding and primary sources used to construct the data.

Partisan_Balance_For_Use2011_06_09.xls
Partisan_Balance_For_Use2011_06_09.dta
Partisan_Balance_For_Use2011_06_09_Codebook.doc
StatePartisanBalance1934to2011_SourceFiles_2011_05_24.xls
StatePartisanBalance1934to2011_SourceFiles_2011_05_24_Codebook.doc

 

State Economic Data
 Dataset with state quarterly personal income, area population (with 2001 to 2009 state population imputed utilizing 2010 population information, which isn't available from the Census yet), gross state product, state finance data (expenditures, revenues, budget surplus, spending on the state legislature), and housing prices.

State_Econ_Quarterly2011_05_28.xls
State_Econ_Quarterly2011_05_28_Codebook.doc

 

Gallup Presidential Approval and Congressional Vote Intention
 Files with Gallup’s presidential approval and congressional vote intention series.  A number of features have been created to make using these variables in election forecasting easier.  For example, the file automatically identifies the survey asked as close as possible to X number of days before the election, for all years.  Let me know if you’d like these files.