Unable to compile DW-NOMINATE.F

[vitorbaptista]

Unable to compile DW-NOMINATE.F

[vitorbaptista]

I tested with GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.4-6ubuntu2) 4.6.4 and GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-12ubuntu1) 4.7.3 as well, and had the same issue.

I just noticed that the DW-NOMINATE.FOR you provide in this repository is different from the one at ftp://voteview.com/wf1/DW-NOMINATE.FOR. It doesn't have the call gettim(itim1,itim2,itim3,itim4) commands at lines 141 and 947. I can compile your version, but are you sure this doesn't influence the results?

141d140
<       call gettim(itim1,itim2,itim3,itim4)
947d945
<       call gettim(jtim1,jtim2,jtim3,jtim4)

[wmay]

I had to remove the gettim functions from the original Fortran program to get it to compile. I was looking at the original Fortran code again around the time I last updated this, so I'm sure that's how I got them confused.

Anyway, gettim() appears to be a function that returns the time. It's just there to keep track of the running time of the program.

[vitorbaptista]

Thanks @wmay. This makes sense.

Now I just have to understand how I can use DW-NOMINATE on other legislatures (i.e. not from the US). It feels too coupled to it, unfortunately :/

I'll close this issue now.

[wmay]

I've seen a rollcall scaling of Canadian legislators. It does seem to be less useful, both because the parties are more cohesive in parliamentary systems (less individual variation to discover), and the axes are harder to interpret.

http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2008/Godbout.pdf

But I'm curious to see what the results of DW-NOMINATE would look like in that situation.