Political Science Data Center

Datasets

House Committee Assignments, 103rd-109th Congresses (.xls, 540 kb)
Term Limits and Strategic Retirement Dataset (.dta, 6.48 Mb)
Voter Registration and Turnout Dataset, available in .csv or Stata .dta formats (200-300 kb)

Related Papers

Stephen Ansolabehere & James M. Snyder, Jr., Using Term Limits to Estimate Incumbency Advantages When Officeholders Retire Strategically, January 2002 (pdf, 540 kb, pp. 31)
"Incumbency Advantages in State Elections" (Ansolabehere and Snyder) Election Law Journal, 2002
Stephen Ansolabehere & David Konisky, The Introduction of Voter Registration and Its Effect on Turnout, Political Analysis, forthcoming in 2006 (pdf, 308 kb, pp. 27)