NOMINATE scores - 2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite

Question

The DW- form of this metric, which was developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal, largely replaced the earlier D- and W- forms. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this metric used by the Voteview project. This metric uses two axes, of which one roughly measures the traditional left-right difference.

ANSWER: NOMINATE scores [accept DW-NOMINATE]

[10m] The main usage of NOMINATE scores is based on this kind of vote in the U.S. Congress. In this kind of vote, as opposed to a voice vote, congresspeople cast votes under their names.

ANSWER: roll call vote [accept recorded vote]

[10e] The second dimension of NOMINATE scores measures issues such as race and, historically, this topic. This was the major issue in the 1896 election, and the subject of a William Jennings Bryan speech about its “cross.”

ANSWER: bimetallism [accept gold standard; accept free silver; accept descriptions about the role of silver as a currency; accept cross of gold; prompt on currency or money supply; prompt on gold or silver]

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	N	2	10.00	0%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	N	4	12.50	0%	125%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest	10/12/2024	N	4	17.50	75%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	N	5	10.00	0%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	N	3	13.33	0%	133%	0%

Data


Columbia	NYU B	10	10	20
JHU A	JHU B	0	10	10
Maryland	NYU A	10	10	20