Keith T. Poole

University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs

Professor of Political Science

Baldwin Hall

Athens, GA 30602-6254

United States

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1.

Political Polarization and Income Inequality

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University
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The Roots of the Polarization of Modern U.S. Politics

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Oct 2008
Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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Political Parties, Polarization

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Does Gerrymandering Cause Polarization?

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
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The Decline and Rise of Party Polarization in Congress During the 20th Century

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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Inferring Universals from Grammatical Variation: Multidimensional Scaling for Typological Analysis

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
William Croft and Keith T. Poole
University of New Mexico and University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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Congress and the Territorial Expansion of the United States

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University
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Scaling Roll Call Votes with W-NOMINATE in R

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2020
Keith T. Poole, Jeffrey B. Lewis, James Lo and Royce Carroll
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Political Science and University of Essex - Department of Government
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multivariate, R, roll call, scaling, wnominate

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The Polarization of Contemporary American Politics

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Apr 2019
Christopher Hare and Keith T. Poole
Independent and University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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Polarization, NOMINATE, Optimal Classification

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Nominate: A Short Intellectual History

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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The Evolving Influence of Psychometrics in Political Science

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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D-Nominate after 10 Years: A Comparative Update To Congress: A Political Economic History of Roll Call Voting

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University
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The Structure of Utility in Spatial Models of Voting

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2009
Royce Carroll, Jeffrey B. Lewis, James Lo, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
University of Essex - Department of Government, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Political Science, University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
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On Measuring Partisanship in Roll Call Voting: The U.S. House of Representatives, 1877-1999

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Gary W. Cox and Keith T. Poole
Stanford University and University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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Measuring Bias and Uncertainty in DW-NOMINATE Ideal Point Estimates via the Parametric Bootstrap

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Measuring Bias and Uncertainty in DW-NOMINATE Ideal Point Estimates via the Parametric Bootstrap

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Oct 2008
Royce Carroll, Jeffrey B. Lewis, James Lo, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
University of Essex - Department of Government, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Political Science, University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
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Congress, nominate, ideal points

Measuring Bias and Uncertainty in DW-NOMINATE Ideal Point Estimates via the Parametric Bootstrap

Political Analysis, Vol. 17, Issue 3, pp. 261-275, 2009
Posted: 18 Aug 2009
Royce Carroll, Jeffrey B. Lewis, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
University of Essex - Department of Government, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University

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Changing Minds? Not in Congress

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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Comparing Nominate and Ideal: Points of Difference and Monte Carlo Tests

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Oct 2008
Royce Carroll, Jeffrey B. Lewis, James Lo, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
University of Essex - Department of Government, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Political Science, University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University
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NOMINATE, IDEAl, spatial voting, roll call votes, ideal points

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Why Hasn’t Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality?

Journal of Economic Perspectives Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 2013, Pages 103-124
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 May 2019
Adam Bonica, Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
Stanford University, Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
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democracy, inequality

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The Unidimensional Congress, 1919-84

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The Unidimensional Congress, 1919-84

GSIA Working Paper No. 44-84-85
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
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The Unidimensional Congress, 1919-84

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 14 May 2019
Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
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Congressional Party Defection in American History

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Timothy P. Nokken and Keith T. Poole
University of Houston and University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
Downloads 93 (474,254)
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Using Bayesian Aldrich-McKelvey Scaling to Study Citizens’ Ideological Preferences and Perceptions

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 May 2019
Christopher Hare, David A. Armstrong, Ryan Bakker, Royce Carroll and Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia, University of Western Ontario, University of Georgia, University of Essex - Department of Government and University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
Downloads 87 (494,371)
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ideology, measurement, Bayesian methods, polarization, ideal point estimation

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Measuring Bias and Uncertainty in Ideal Point Estimates Via the Parametric Bootstrap

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Jeffrey B. Lewis and Keith T. Poole
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
Downloads 65 (583,186)
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The Hunt for Party Discipline in Congress

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University
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The Geometry of Multidimensional Quadratic Utility in Models of Parliamentary Roll Call Voting

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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The Scientific Status of Geometric Models of Choice and Similarities Judgment

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 May 2009
Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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policy preferences, policy space, ideology, legislatures

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How to Use the Black Box

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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Bayesian Metric Multidimensional Scaling

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 14 May 2019
Ryan Bakker and Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - Department of Political Science and University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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A Method of Linking Surveys Using Affective 'Signatures' with an Application to Racial/Ethnic Groups in the U.S.

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Oct 2008
Marisa Abrajano and Keith T. Poole
University of California, San Diego - Department of Political Science and University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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surveys, race, ethnicity, feeling thermometer

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Appendix to Non-Parametric Unfolding of Binary Choice Data

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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Measuring Bias and Uncertainty in DW-NOMINATE Ideal Point Estimates via the Parametric Bootstrap

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 May 2019
Royce Carroll, Jeffrey B. Lewis, James Lo and Keith T. Poole
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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Proof that If Voting is Perfect in One Dimension, then the First Eigenvector Extracted from the Double-Centered Transformed Agreement Score Matrix Has the Same Rank Ordering as the True Data

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs
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Extremism, Intensity, and Perception in Congressional Voting

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 May 2019
Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
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How Optimal Classification (Oc) Works in One Dimension: The "Edith" Algorithm

Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Keith T. Poole
University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs

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Using Optimal Classification to Estimate Candidate Locations from Feeling Thermometers

APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 15 Jul 2012
Christopher Vincent Mark Hare and Keith T. Poole
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs

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