<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><dcterms:title>Aggregate State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data, July 2020 update</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AP54NE</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Shor, Boris</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Harvard Dataverse</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2020-07-03</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2020-07-03T16:01:54Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>This version of the Shor-McCarty state legislative aggregate ideology data is being released as an update to the data underlying Shor and McCarty 2011. These are based on individual-level ideal point estimates described fully in that article. Estimates are all in Shor-McCarty NPAT common ideological space to facilitate explicit comparisons across time and between states. The data spans 1993 through 2018, with 2,268 chamber-years of data (compared with 2,025 in the previous release).</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:isReferencedBy>Shor, Boris and Nolan McCarty. 2011. "The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures." American Political Science Review 105(3):530-551, doi, 10.1017/s0003055411000153, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055411000153</dcterms:isReferencedBy><dcterms:date>2020-07-03</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Shor, Boris</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:dateSubmitted>2020-07-03</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:license>CC0 1.0</dcterms:license></metadata>