APA Election Data (00028)

This dataset contains the results of the elections of the American Psychological Association between 1998 - 2009. The voters are allowed to rank any number of the 5 candidates without ties. Each of these elections have 5 candidates and between 13,318 and 20,239 voters.

These data were donated by Michal Regenwetter and Anna Popova from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The work that analyzed this data was supported by National Science Foundation grants SES # 08-20009, ICES # 1216016 (PI: M. Regenwetter), the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PI: A. Popova), and the Basic Research Program at HSE (S. Popov). We thank the American Psychological Association for permitting access to its election ballot data. More information and tools for analyzing this data can be found at the website of the Decision Making Laboratory at the University of Illinois.

Required citations: S. Popov, A. Popova, M. Regenwetter. Consensus formation in organizations: Hunting for the social choice conundrum in American Psychological Association elections Decision, 2015 (Bibtex).

Selected studies: M. Regenwetter, A. Kim, A. Kantor, and M.-H. R. Ho. The unexpected empirical consensus among consensus methods. Psychological Science, 18, 629-635, 2007. | M. Regenwetter, B. Grofman, A. Popova, W. Messner, C. Davis-Stober and D. Cavagnaro. Behavioural social choice: A status report. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364, 833-843, 2009.

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Election

Number of files: 24
Total size: 95.0 KB
Data types: soi, toc.
Publication date: April 13, 2017
Last modification: April 10, 2024

APA_1998 — 00028-00000001.soi

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10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 5
11	# NUMBER VOTERS: 18723
12	# NUMBER UNIQUE ORDERS: 292
13	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 1: Candidate 1
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27	263: 3, 4, 2, 1, 5
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APA_1999 — 00028-00000002.soi

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10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 5
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12	# NUMBER UNIQUE ORDERS: 299
13	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 1: Candidate 1
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15	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 3: Candidate 3
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APA_2000 — 00028-00000003.soi

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10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 5
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APA_2001 — 00028-00000004.soi

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10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 5
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12	# NUMBER UNIQUE ORDERS: 302
13	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 1: Candidate 1
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15	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 3: Candidate 3
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APA_2002 — 00028-00000005.soi

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10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 5
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APA_2003 — 00028-00000006.soi

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10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 5
11	# NUMBER VOTERS: 17956
12	# NUMBER UNIQUE ORDERS: 286
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APA_2004 — 00028-00000007.soi

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APA_2005 — 00028-00000008.soi

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APA_2006 — 00028-00000009.soi

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10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 5
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APA_2007 — 00028-00000010.soi

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10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 5
11	# NUMBER VOTERS: 13318
12	# NUMBER UNIQUE ORDERS: 289
13	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 1: Candidate 1
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15	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 3: Candidate 3
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APA_2008 — 00028-00000011.soi

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10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 5
11	# NUMBER VOTERS: 18286
12	# NUMBER UNIQUE ORDERS: 297
13	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 1: Candidate 1
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15	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 3: Candidate 3
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APA_2009 — 00028-00000012.soi

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15	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 3: Candidate 3
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