Keith T. Poole (born 1947) is an American political scientist and the Philip H. Alston Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at the

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. He has compiled and maintained datasets related to the

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for forty years, and he has made them available on his website, Voteview, since 1995. Poole originally developed Voteview as a

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program with Howard Rosenthal at

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from 1989 to 1992. He also worked with Rosenthal on the development of the

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method to assess the voting behavior of members of Congress along a given dimension. He was inducted into the

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in 2006. In 2016, he received the

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's Career Achievement Award, and in 2018, the journal ''

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'' published a special issue in his honor.

Work

Works include: * Poole, Keith T., and Howard Rosenthal. Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. * Poole, Keith T., and Howard Rosenthal. Ideology in Congress. New Brunswick, Transaction Press, 2007, 2nd Rev. Edition. * McCarty, Nolan., Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal. Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2013. * Armstrong II, David A., Ryan Bakker, Royce Carroll, Christopher Hare, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal. Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment with R, CRC Press, 2014.

References

External links

Voteview.comFaculty page
* 1947 births Living people People from Newport, Oregon American political scientists Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Portland State University alumni University of Rochester alumni University of Georgia faculty {{US-polisci-bio-stub