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The Measurement of the Partisan Balance of State Government

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2021

Carl Klarner
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Abstract

This note examines problems associated with measuring the partisan balance of state government. A description of a new publicly available dataset is given, as well as of the methods used to collect these data. The results of three data analyses using different measures of state government partisan balance demonstrate that sometimes measurement error on this variable can influence substantive findings.

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Research Article
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State Politics & Policy Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2003 , pp. 309 - 319
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association, 2003

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