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Code to create a list of the 154 policies in our Roper population for Clifford, Leeper, and Rainey
Category Issue Policy
Economic Drug Costs allowing imported drugs from Canada
Economic Drug Costs eliminate drug advertisements
Economic Drug Costs requiring to pay higher share in drugs
Economic Education free state college tuition
Economic Energy adding monthly charge to utility bill to combat climate change
Economic Energy carbon dioxide emission limits
Economic Energy coal
Economic Energy drilling
Economic Energy energy efficiency
Economic Energy fossil fuel subsidies
Economic Energy fracking
Economic Energy fund renewable energy research
Economic Energy generate renewable energy
Economic Energy mandate carbon tax
Economic Energy more nuclear power plants
Economic Energy more solar panels
Economic Energy more wind turbines
Economic Energy offshore drilling
Economic Energy reducing coal use
Economic Energy regulate carbon dioxide emission
Economic Energy regulate CO2
Economic Energy require coal plants to pay carbon tax
Economic Energy Tax rebates for clean energy consumption
Foreign Policy Foreign Aid aiding developing countries
Economic Government Spending spending cuts
Economic Healthcare "public option" health care
Economic Healthcare ACA
Economic Healthcare FDA drug costs
Economic Healthcare FDA own review
Economic Healthcare FDA review speed
Economic Healthcare gov't advantage over private industry with public health plan
Economic Healthcare hormone and sexual reassignment coverage
Economic Healthcare medicare provides insurance credits
Economic Healthcare more HIV and AIDS treatment
Economic Healthcare replacing ACA with universal healthcare
Economic Healthcare single payer system
Economic Healthcare Trans health coverage
Economic Inequality raising national minimum wage
Economic Infrastructure funding infrastructure
Economic Living Assistance paid leave for caregivers
Economic Living Assistance requirement for long term care assistance
Economic Paid Family Leave gov't controlled fund that people paid their way into
Economic Paid Family Leave gov't covered the paid leave
Economic Paid Family Leave gov't provided tax credits to businesses that allow paid leave
Economic Paid Family Leave providing paid sick leave for up to 12 weeks
Economic Paid Family Leave set up flexible spending account
Economic Public Health spending to prevent spread of Zika
Economic Regulation On Businesses regulation on big business
Economic Retirement Plan setting up retirement plan for workers
Economic Retirement Plan whether candidates should support public retirement plans or not
Economic Taxes higher taxes on the rich
Economic Taxes providing tax credits to companies who keep jobs in the U.S.
Economic Taxes raising property taxes
Economic Taxes reducing taxes for all
Economic Taxes social program funding
Foreign Policy International Cooperation reestablishing diplomatic relations with Cuba
Foreign Policy International Court Trials international criminal court
Foreign Policy International Trade ending trade embargo with Cuba
Foreign Policy International Trade importing from developing countries
Foreign Policy International Trade renegotiating trade deals
Foreign Policy International Trade TPP
Foreign Policy National Defense accept North Korea will continue producing nukes
Foreign Policy National Defense airstrikes against ISIS
Foreign Policy National Defense airstrikes on North Korea
Foreign Policy National Defense allowing Assad to remain in power
Foreign Policy National Defense anti-terrorism
Foreign Policy National Defense arming Syrian militant groups
Foreign Policy National Defense atomic bomb usage in Japan
Foreign Policy National Defense conducting airstrikes in Syria
Foreign Policy National Defense cyber attacks on North Korea
Foreign Policy National Defense deploying troops against ISIS
Foreign Policy National Defense diplomatic negotiations with North Korea
Foreign Policy National Defense enforcing no fly zones over Syria
Foreign Policy National Defense impose economic sanctions on North Korea
Foreign Policy National Defense Iran Nuclear Agreement
Foreign Policy National Defense send troops to destroy nuclear facilities
Foreign Policy National Defense sending special forces into Syria
Foreign Policy National Defense sending troops to Syria
Foreign Policy National Defense terrorist surveillance
Foreign Policy Peace In The Middle East independent Palestinian state
Social Abortion admitting privileges
Social Abortion allowing for an abortion after 24 weeks
Social Abortion allowing for an abortion after 24 weeks if contracted Zika
Social Abortion Doctors providing abortions mandated to obtain permission to become nearby hospital staff
Social Abortion end funding for planned parenthood
Social Abortion federal funding for abortions under Medicaid
Social Abortion multiple doctor appointments
Social Abortion prohibited coverage
Social Abortion rebuilding clinics
Social Abortion special certificate needed to perform abortions
Social Abortion ultrasound
Social Abortion underage accessibility to birth control
Social Abortion written consent by guardians for minors
Social Cancer Research gene therapy
Social Capital Punishment death penalty
Social Censorship pornography laws
Social Drug Addiction requiring drug treatment instead of jail time for illegal drug usage
Social Equal Rights affirmative action programs for minorities
Social Equal Rights affirmative action programs for women
Social Equal Rights better sensitivity training for police regarding Trans-gender
Social Equal Rights create programs that allow minorities to get ahead
Social Equal Rights gender neutral bathrooms
Social Equal Rights government assistance
Social Equal Rights LGBTQ job discrimination
Social Equal Rights more services for LGBTQ
Social Equal Rights trans job discrimination
Social Freedom Of The Press allowing news outlets to report on issues pertaining to national security
Social Gay Rights business discrimination against homosexual marriage
Social Gay Rights equal housing opportunity
Social Gay Rights gay marriage
Social Gay Rights legally adopt children
Social Gun Control allowing CDC to study gun violence
Social Gun Control assault rifle ban
Social Gun Control background checks
Social Gun Control banning all weapon sales
Social Gun Control banning gun sales to people on no -fly list
Social Gun Control banning high capacity magazines
Social Gun Control banning suspected terrorists from buying guns
Social Gun Control criminally charging adults who fail to prevent children from accessing guns
Social Gun Control executive order
Social Gun Control federal gun purchasing database
Social Gun Control gun show purchase provisions
Social Gun Control handgun ban
Social Gun Control high capacity magazine ban
Social Gun Control holding gun retailers reliable when a gun they sell is used in a crime
Social Gun Control mandatory Federal or state gun buyback program
Social Gun Control more federal funding for gun control
Social Gun Control more security in public places
Social Gun Control optional federal or state gun buyback program
Social Gun Control preventing felons and mentally ill from buying guns
Social Gun Control prevention of gun sales to mentally ill
Social Gun Control requiring gun manufacturers to make guns harder to load
Social Gun Control Requiring gun owners insurance
Social Gun Control Stiffer penalties on people who violate gun laws
Social Gun Control stricter gun laws
Social Immigration allow children of immigrants to get citizenship after obtaining higher education degree
Social Immigration automatic citizenship for immigrant's children born in U.S.
Social Immigration ban immigration from terrorist watch listed countries
Social Immigration building border wall
Social Immigration deport all undocumented immigrants
Social Immigration guest worker program
Social Immigration immigrant employment background checks
Social Immigration increase federal spending on border control
Social Immigration muslim ban
Social Immigration path to citizenship
Social Immigration path to citizenship - military
Social Immigration Syrian refugees
Social Marijuana marijuana legalization
Social Marijuana medicinal marijuana
Social Police Violence body cameras
Social Police Violence stop and frisk
Social Sex Education sex education ban in schools
Social Traditional Values concentration of state or federal gov't
Social Traditional Values separation of church and state
# load packages
library(tidyverse)
library(dataverse)
# grab the Roper data set from dataverse
# ----
# note 1: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=6903143&version=1.0
# note 2: this function to grab the data seems to fail sometimes--I think this
# is an error on dataverse's end
# ----
roper <- get_dataframe_by_name(
filename = "Roper 2016 Full_v7.xlsx",
dataset = "doi:10.7910/DVN/NNAVTE",
server = "dataverse.harvard.edu",
.f = readxl::read_excel)
# create the a data set of the 154 policies in our population
policies <- roper %>%
filter(Partisanship != "N") %>%
select(Category, Issue, Policy) %>%
mutate(Category = str_to_title(Category),
Issue = str_to_title(Issue)) %>%
distinct() %>%
write_csv("all-policies.csv") %>%
glimpse()
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