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This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We build on the methods introduced by Degan and Merlo (2009) representing elections as Voronoi tessellations of the ideological space. We exploit the properties of this...
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about some of the experimentally controlled parameters — in this case voting costs. We use quantal response equilibrium as … the underlying, common structure for estimation, and estimate models of instrumental voting, altruistic voting, expressive … voting, and ethical voting. All the models except the ethical model recover the concealed parameters reasonably well. We also …
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This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters’ preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822904
This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445762
of voters consistent with sincere voting? We show that using data only on how individuals vote in a single election, the … behavior of voters is consistent with sincere voting in U.S. national elections in the post-war period. We find that by and … large sincere voting can explain virtually all of the individual-level observations on voting behavior in presidential and …
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In this paper we address the following question: To what extent is the hypothesis that voters vote “ideologically” (i.e., they always vote for the candidate who is ideologically “closest” to them) testable or falsifiable? We show that using data only on how individuals vote in a single...
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theoretical framework and assess whether the behavior of voters is consistent with sincere voting in U.S. national elections in … the post-war period. We find that by and large sincere voting can explain virtually all of the individual …-level observations on voting behavior in presidential and congressional U.S. elections in the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102085
theoretical framework and assess whether the behaviour of voters is consistent with sincere voting in U.S. national elections in … the post-war period. We find that by and large sincere voting can explain virtually all of the individual …-level observations on voting behaviour in presidential and congressional U.S. elections in the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662163
This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317976
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