Nominate: A Short Intellectual History

10 Pages Posted: 1 Jul 2008

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Keith T. Poole

University of Georgia - School of Public and International Affairs

Abstract

When John Londregan asked me to write something for TPM about NOMINATE and "why we (Howard Rosenthal and I) went high tech" rather than using simpler descriptions of roll call data, I was puzzled for some time on how to explain why we did what we did. The problem is that my whole career has been devoted to testing a "high-tech" spatial theory so of necessity the methods I have employed over the years have been complicated. However, in the spirit of John's request, I will give a short intellectual history of how and why Howard and I developed NOMINATE in the form we did.

Suggested Citation

Poole, Keith T., Nominate: A Short Intellectual History. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1154153 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1154153

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