Controls
Congressional District Map (Click districts for details)
Summary Statistics
Party Breakdown
Trends Over Time by Party
Industry Spending vs LCV Score
Distribution by Party
Controls
State Map (Click states for details)
Summary Statistics
Party Breakdown
Trends Over Time by Party
Industry Spending vs LCV Score
Distribution by Party
Compare House and Senate
Mean Values by Party
Distributions Comparison
Time Series Comparison
About This Dashboard
MBPL Analysis Dashboard
This interactive dashboard visualizes the relationship between money, business interests, and political behavior in the U.S. Congress. It allows exploration of how campaign contributions from energy and natural resource industries relate to environmental voting patterns.
Data Sources:
- League of Conservation Voters (LCV): Annual environmental voting scores
- Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME): Campaign contribution data
- Voteview: DW-NOMINATE ideology scores
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Fossil fuel employment and wage data by geography
Key Variables:
- LCV Score: Environmental voting score ranging from 0 (anti-environment) to 100 (pro-environment)
- Industry Spending: Total campaign contributions from energy and natural resource industries (log-transformed)
- Party: D = Democrat, R = Republican, I = Independent
- DW-NOMINATE: Ideological score where -1 is most liberal and +1 is most conservative
- Fossil Fuel Wages: Total annual wages in fossil fuel industries by congressional district or state
Data Coverage:
- House of Representatives: 2002-2022 (469 unique districts, 5,248 member-year observations)
- Senate: 1992-2022 (50 states, 1,646 member-year observations)
Features:
- Interactive maps showing geographic variation
- Year-by-year animation to see changes over time
- Filter by party affiliation
- Multiple visualization types: maps, trends, scatterplots, and distributions
- Compare House and Senate patterns
- Hover for detailed information on individual members
How to Use:
- Use the sidebar to navigate between House, Senate, and Comparison tabs
- Adjust the year slider to see data for different election cycles
- Change the variable dropdown to visualize different metrics
- Filter by party to focus on specific political groups
- Hover over map markers or chart points for detailed information
- Click the play button on year slider for animated time series
Dashboard created for MBPL Analysis project. For questions or feedback, contact the research team.