Marc Henry and Ismael Mourifié, "Euclidean Revealed Preferences: Testing 
the Spatial Testing Voting Model", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 
28, No. 4, 2013, pp. 650-666.

The data used in this paper were taken from the two following datasets:

The first source is the American National Studies (ANES). ANES is available
on-line at

  http://www.electionstudies.org/ .
  
For discussion of potential limitations of the survey data in the ANES, 
see Anderson and Silver (1986). Also see a new technical report on "How 
to Analyze ANES Survey Data", by Matthew DeBell on-line at

  http://www.electionstudies.org/resources/papers/nes012492.pdf.
  
The ANES represents the best and most widely used source of 
individual-level data on electoral participation and voting in U.S., 
which for each election year contains the individual voting decisions in 
presidential, senate and house races. It also gives the residence 
district of each voter and the name of each candidate in each election.

The second source is the Poole and Rosenthal NOMINATE common space scores.
These data are available on-line at

  http://www.voteview.com/ .
  
For a discussion of potential limitations of Poole and Rosenthal's 
methodology, see Heckman and Snyder (1997). Poole and Rosenthal 
developed a methodology to estimate the positions of all politicians who 
ever served as president, senator, or house representative, in common 
two-ideological space.

The analysis of this paper used data from 2000, 2004, and 2008.

The data that we use are the result of a matching between these two
datasets. The procedure for this matching is explained in the paper. See
also Degan and Merlo (2009).

The database is composed of 3 different files, position00.txt,
position04.txt, and position08.txt.

File 1: Position00 year 2000
number of columns 13
number of lines  602
column 1: position of democrat president on conservatism economic axis
column 2: position of democrat president on social issue axis
column 3: position of republican president on conservatism economic axis
column 4: position of republican  president on social issue axis
column 5: position of democrat senator on conservatism economic axis
column 6: position of democrat senator on social issue axis
column 7: position of republican senator on conservatism economic axis
column 8: position of republican  senator on social issue axis
column 9: position of democrat senator on conservatism economic axis
column 10: position of democrat senator on social issue axis
column 11: position of republican senator on conservatism economic axis
column 12: position of republican  senator on social issue axis
column 13: voting profile of individual i

For column 13,
1= DDD i.e this individual elects a democrat candidate at each of 3
   elections
2=DDR
3=DRD
4=DRR
5=RDD
6=RDR
7=RRD
8=RRR

File 2: Position04 year 2004
number of columns 13
number of lines  433
column 1: position of democrat president on conservatism economic axis
column 2: position of democrat president on social issue axis
column 3: position of republican president on conservatism economic axis
column 4: position of republican  president on social issue axis
column 5: position of democrat senator on conservatism economic axis
column 6: position of democrat senator on social issue axis
column 7: position of republican senator on conservatism economic axis
column 8: position of republican  senator on social issue axis
column 9: position of democrat senator on conservatism economic axis
column 10: position of democrat senator on social issue axis
column 11: position of republican senator on conservatism economic axis
column 12: position of republican  senator on social issue axis
column 13: voting profile of individual i

For column 13
1= DDD i.e this individual elects a democrat candidate at each of 3
   elections
2=DDR
3=DRD
4=DRR
5=RDD
6=RDR
7=RRD
8=RRR

File 3: Position08 year 2008
number of columns 13
number of lines  514
column 1: position of democrat president on conservatism economic axis
column 2: position of democrat president on social issue axis
column 3: position of republican president on conservatism economic axis
column 4: position of republican  president on social issue axis
column 5: position of democrat senator on conservatism economic axis
column 6: position of democrat senator on social issue axis
column 7: position of republican senator on conservatism economic axis
column 8: position of republican  senator on social issue axis
column 9: position of democrat senator on conservatism economic axis
column 10: position of democrat senator on social issue axis
column 11: position of republican senator on conservatism economic axis
column 12: position of republican  senator on social issue axis
column 13: voting profile of individual i

For column 13
1= DDD i.e this individual elects a democrat candidate at each of 3
   elections
2=DDR
3=DRD
4=DRR
5=RDD
6=RDR
7=RRD
8=RRR

The three data files are all ASCII files in DOS format. They are zipped in
the file hm-data.zip. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a".