hoffR Documentation

Social Security Expenditure Data

Description

This data set contains annual social security expenditure (as percent of budget lagged by two years), the relative frequency of mentions social justice received in the party's platform in each year, and whether the president is Republican or Democrat.

Usage

data(hoff)

Format

A table containing 5 variables ("year", "L2SocSec", "Just503D", "Just503R", "RGovDumy") and 36 observations.

Source

ICPSR (replication dataset s1109)

References

Gary King and Michael Laver. “On Party Platforms, Mandates, and Government Spending,” American Political Science Review, Vol. 87, No. 3 (September, 1993): pp. 744-750.