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Placing Lobbyists in Legislative Ideological Space

I propose a new method to place lobbyists into standard common space measures for ideology scores, leveraging responses from former members of the U.S. Congress to a survey containing a battery of ideology attitude measures, along with a flexible Bayesian statistical model. The statistical model incorporates estimation uncertainty into the imputed lobbyist ideology measures and...