An ideal point model would likely capture the "enterprise" dimension, but not the "science" one, and would not be able to distinguish between libertarians like Ron Paul (R-TX) who are against both "corporate welfare" and government science funding, conservative budget hawks like Jeff Flake (R-AZ) who favor business but are skeptical of government funding of science, and es- Figure 2: Relative likelihood of congresspeople in the 110th Congress voting for a bill containing only the word "Enterprise" versus only the word "Science."
1 our dataset consists of all votes on the full-text (not amendments) of bills or resolutions from the 106th-111th Congress, six of the most recent Congresses for which bill texts are readily available.