hoff                  package:Zelig                  R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     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.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(hoff)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

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

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     ICPSR (replication dataset s1109)

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     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.

