Concordance: Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama

Appendix B. Tables of NOMINATE, Party Unity, Presidential Support, and Legislative Effectiveness Scores for the CBC and Other House Caucuses

165 Appendix B Tables of NOMINATE, Party Unity, Presidential Support, and Legislative Effectiveness Scores for the CBC and Other House Caucuses TABLE B1. Average 1st Dimension Poole-Rosenthal Scores for CBC and House Democrats, 95th–111th Congresses (std. deviations in parentheses), and Regression Coefficient for Year All House House Democrats CBC Democrats Minus Blacks 95th −0.56 (.07) −0.29 (.20) −0.27 (.19) 96th −0.56 (.07) −0.29 (.20) −0.27 (.20) 97th −0.56 (.07) −0.29 (.20) −0.27 (.20) 98th −0.57 (.07) −0.30 (.19) −0.27 (.18) 99th −0.57 (.07) −0.31 (.17) −0.29 (.17) 100th −0.56 (.09) −0.31 (.17) −0.29 (.16) 101st −0.56 (.10) −0.32 (.17) −0.29 (.16) 102nd −0.58 (.11) −0.32 (.17) −0.30 (.16) 103rd −0.54 (.09) −0.34 (.17) −0.31 (.15) 104th −0.53 (.08) −0.37 (.16) −0.33 (.16) 105th −0.52 (.09) −0.38 (.15) −0.35 (.14) 106th −0.51 (.09) −0.38 (.15) −0.35 (.15) 107th −0.51 (.09) −0.39 (.14) −0.36 (.14) 108th −0.48 (.11) −0.39 (.14) −0.37 (.14) 109th −0.48 (.11) −0.40 (.13) −0.38 (.13) 110th −0.47 (.10) −0.38 (.15) −0.36 (.15) 111th −0.48 (.11) −0.36 (.16) −0.34 (.16) B coefficient for year .007** (.001) −.007** (.001) −.007** (.001) Source: Poole-Rosenthal nominate scores, first dimension, and as calculated for Black House legislators and House Democrats. **T-statistic probability value < .001 166 • Appendixes TABLE B2. Average 2nd Dimension Poole-Rosenthal Scores for CBC and House Democrats (std. deviations in parentheses), and Regression Coefficient for Year All House House Democrats CBC Democrats Minus Blacks 95th 0.16 0.16 0.18 96th 0.15 0.15 0.17 97th 0.12 0.12 0.16 98th 0.10 0.10 0.14 99th 0.11 0.11 0.15 100th 0.13 0.13 0.17 101st 0.12 0.12 0.16 102nd 0.13 0.13 0.17 103rd 0.11 0.11 0.14 104th 0.09 0.09 0.13 105th 0.05 0.05 0.09 106th 0.08 0.08 0.12 107th 0.07 0.07 0.11 108th 0.08 0.08 0.12 109th 0.07 0.07 0.12 110th 0.13 0.13 0.19 111th 0.18 0.18 0.24 B coefficient for year 0.016** (0.003) −0.002 (0.001) 0.000 (0.001) Source: Poole-Rosenthal nominate scores, second dimension, and as calculated for Black House legislators and House Democrats. **T-statistic probability value < .001 Appendixes • 167 TABLE B3. Average CQ Almanac Party Unity Scores for CBC House Democrats and House Democrats, 1977–2010 (std. deviations in parentheses) Year CBC House Democrats House Democrats 1977 81 (7.4) 68 1978 74 (13.8) 63 1979 80 (14.0) 69 1980 75 (5.1) 69 1981 79 (9.3) 69 1982 77 (9.8) 72 1983 84.5 (5.9) 76 1984 83 (7.6) 74 1985 83 (8.8) 80 1986 82 (8.2) 79 1987 85 (7.7) 81 1988 81 (7.4) 80 1989 84 (10.0) 81 1990 n/a 81 1991 87 (6.9) 81 1992 83 (11.0) 79 1993 90 (7.4) 85 1994 87 (7.7) 83 1995 88 (7.1) 80 1996 88 (7.3) 80 1997 88 (5.5) 82 1998 88 (5.7) 82 1999 94 (4.4) 83 2000 94 (5.6) 82 2001 92 (5.4) 83 2002 95 (3.8) 86 2003 95 (5.0) 87 2004 94.5 (5.1) 86 2005 94 (5.3) 88 2006 93 (5.7) 86 2007 98 (1.1) 92 2008 99 (0.7) 92 2009 98 (1.4) 91 2010 97 (1.9) 89 Source: Calculated for CBC House Democrats by author and as reported in CQ Almanac, various years, for House Democrats. Note: n/a = not applicable. 168 • Appendixes TABLE B4. Average CQ Almanac Presidential Support Scores for CBC House Democrats and House Democrats, 1977–2010 (std. deviations in parentheses) CBC House Democrats House Democrats Gap 1977 66 (8.7) 62 4 1978 65 (12.2) 62 3 1979 70 (12.8) 64 6 1980 62 (4.6) 61 1 1981 28 (5.8) 42 −14 1982 23 (5.9) 36 −13 1983 11 (4.1) 28 −17 1984 20 (3.6) 34 −14 1985 15.5 (2.1) 30 −14.5 1986 13 (2.6) 25 −12 1987 12 (2.9) 24 −12 1988 15 (2.8) 25 −10 1989 25 (5.2) 36 −11 1990 n/a 25 n/a 1991 24 (2.8) 34 −10 1992 11 (2.8) 25 −14 1993 78 (7.9) 77 1 1994 72 (12.0) 75 0 1995 80 (9.3) 75 1 1996 77 (6.8) 74 1 1997 74 (5.8) 71 2 1998 79 (6.4) 74 5 1999 83 (4.8) 73 10 2000 83.5 (7.6) 73 10.5 2001 22 (9.3) 31 −9 2002 26 (7.6) 32 −6 2003 20 (8.6) 26 −6 2004 26 (11.2) 30 −4 2005 20.5 (9.9) 24 −3.5 2006 28 (13.4) 31 −3 2007 5 (2.6) 7 −2 2008 15 (3.9) 16 −1 2009 96 (2.4) 90 6 2010 86 (5.3) 84 2 Source: Calculated for CBC House Democrats by author and as reported in CQ Almanac, various years, for House Democrats. Note: n/a = not applicable. Appendixes • 169 TABLE B5. Average Legislative Effectiveness Scores for the CBC (Democrats only), House Democrats, House Republicans, and Other Caucuses, 1977–2010 House House Blue Dogs Progressive Hispanic CBC Democrats Republicans Caucus Caucus Caucus 1977 0.63 0.51 0.47 1978 0.55 0.57 0.46 1979 0.61 0.64 0.55 1980 0.42 0.57 0.73 1981 0.44 0.56 0.67 1982 0.77 0.67 0.45 1983 0.60 0.62 0.46 1984 0.55 0.6 0.49 1985 0.55 0.52 0.62 1986 0.56 0.64 0.54 1987 0.78 0.77 0.34 1988 0.65 0.73 0.52 1989 0.57 0.66 0.62 1990 0.78 0.71 0.42 1991 0.56 0.63 0.6 1992 0.75 0.7 0.54 1993 0.71 0.7 0.37 1994 0.69 0.65 0.54 1995 0.34 0.41 0.8 1996 0.56 0.63 0.75 0.61 1997 0.46 0.54 0.7 0.55 1998 0.55 0.61 0.69 0.57 1999 0.52 0.55 0.68 0.56 2000 0.70 0.73 0.74 2001 0.32 0.39 0.78 0.45 2002 0.37 0.41 0.75 0.45 2003 0.31 0.36 0.8 0.39 2004 0.67 0.73 0.61 0.67 2005 0.57 0.56 0.72 0.55 2006 0.27 0.3 0.87 2007 0.78 0.71 0.49 0.73 0.69 2008 0.89 0.88 0.48 0.86 0.87 2009 0.9 0.86 0.23 2010 0.72 0.77 0.36 Source: Average legislative effectiveness scores were based on the percentage of time that caucus members voted with the majority on the CQ Almanac (various years) list of “key votes” bills. These scores for caucuses were calculated by the author. House party scores were calculated using aggregate reported votes by parties on key bills as reported in CQ Almanac. ...