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Example Legislator Party Affiliation Data by Congress

Example Legislator Party Affiliation Data by Congress

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Political parties emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries as an important aspect of democratic organization, and remain a prominent aspect of political participation to this day. The importance of political parties is underscored by the vast research that has focused on all aspects of political parties, their relationship to legislative bodies and t...

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... means that any legislator that serves multiple terms must have multiple records, one for each term. An example of this data from 19th century American congressional records is given in Table 1, specifically looking at the congressional career of John Quincy Adams. We observe that he regularly changed his party affiliation as the Federalist party declined in favor and the Whig party combined former Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans and the Anti-masonic Party to counter the rising Jacksonian Democratic Party. ...
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... also observe that the name feature drops his middle name, and therefore will confuse him with two other John Adams that served (one in 1817 and one in 1885). In the case of the US data, a "govtrack" identifying key is provided (not shown in Table 1), that can be used as a unique key. ...

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