TexLege for iPhone

Thank you for your interest. The impetus for TexLege lies in the numerous days I’ve spent lost in the underground extension catacombs of the Texas Capitol, trying to find a legislator’s office with no cell signal or internet service on my iPhone.

But now I can guarantee I won’t be lost under there again, and you won’t be either. Among a litany of other features, TexLege has pre-installed maps of the complex, along with a full directory of legislators and their office information, so you won’t need internet service to find your way around.

Exclusive to TexLege – A Roll Call Vote Index measuring legislator partisanship! The Roll Call Index originates from my dissertation, and uses Poole and Rosenthal’s W-NOMINATE dimensional scaling analysis method. In this context, it is not a measure of ideology, nor should it be taken as such. It is a measure of marginalization between legislators in their record voting behavior.