I had promised a summary of responses to my request for data on the
partisan composition of state legislatures. There are three items that may
be of general interest and a fourth that might work for you.
1. Dean Burnham, now long ago, created such a data set now on ICPSR:
ICPSR 16, Partisan Division of American State Governments, 1834-1985. It
needs updated and is reported to be hard to work with.
2. Second there is a new book that lloks great, and fills in holes in
Dean's data set:
Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures: A Year by Year Summary,
1796?2006, by Michael J. Dubin
ISBN 978-0-7864-2914-1
<http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-2914-1>
3. State Politics and Policy Quarterly maintains a data web site,
that, while the above are more appropriate for my particular purposes,
could be just the answer for others:
<http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/SPPQ/sppq.shtml>
4. Several people sent me their own data sets (usually draw from
Burnham's, I think), which was terrific. Once I have these data (and some
other data) in shape for general use, they will be put up on a web site for
others to use.
Thank you all,
John
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