American Representation Study, 1958: Candidates

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Label

American Representation Study, 1958: Candidates

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Miller, Warren E

Contributor

• Stokes, Donald E.

Author

• Stokes, Donald E.
• Miller, Warren E

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• civil rights
• communication
• congressional candidates
• congressional districts
• congressional elections (US House)
• decision making
• demographic characteristics
• election districts
• electoral behavior
• foreign policy
• government elites
• legislators
• national elections
• party membership
• United States Congress
• political affiliation
• political elites
• political ideologies
• political issues
• political partisanship
• political perceptions
• political representation
• politicians
• roll call data
• social welfare
• survey
• voting behavior
• perceptions
• United States House of Representatives
• campaign issues
• campaign strategies
• candidates

Genre

• survey

Summary

This dataset belongs to a three-part study on American representation conducted shortly before and after the 1958 congressional election (see also AMERICAN REPRESENTATION STUDY, 1958: CANDIDATE AND CONSTITUENT, PARTY [ICPSR 7292] and ICPSR AMERICAN REPRESENTATION STUDY, 1958: CANDIDATE AND CONSTITUENT, INCUMBENCY [7293]). This data collection concentrates on the candidates and includes interviews with 251 candidates -- both incumbents and their opponents -- from 146 districts. The questions were designed to elicit information on what the candidates considered to be the most important issues of the campaign, their views on these issues, and their perceptions of the positions of their constituents. The candidates were also asked what influenced them and what they felt influenced the outcome of the campaign. Derived measures calculate 85th Congress roll-call scores on social welfare, foreign involvement, and civil rights issues. Roll-call data and information on committee activities of the congressmen are also provided. The two combined candidate and constituent files (ICPSR 7292 and 7293) contain the same candidate information as this collection, but are structured around the district as the unit of analysis. Demographic information on candidates includes sex, race, year of birth, size of birthplace, highest graduate degree, prior occupations, public offices previously held, several indices of spatial mobility, religious preference, and ethnic background