Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to be inferred from their roll-call votes. These are typically random utility models where the features of the utility functions other than the ideal points are assumed rather than estimated. In this article, we first consider a model in which legislators' utility functions are allowed to be a mixture of the two most commonly assumed utility functions: the quadratic function and the Gaussian function assumed by NOMINATE. Across many roll-call data sets, we find that legislatorsメ utility functions are estimated to be very nearly Gaussian. We then relax the usual assumption that each legislator is equally sensitive to policy change and find that e...
Poole and Rosenthal (1997) argue that most congressional voting can be understood in terms of a low-...
We test the spatial voting model under the hypothesis that the voter preferences are of a more gener...
We propose a modified spatial-voting rule to explain why congressional candidates adopt more extreme...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
The application of spatial voting theories to popular elections presupposes an electorate that choos...
Proposers strategically formulate legislative bills before voting takes place. However, spatial voti...
In representative democracies, social choice requires the election of representatives to a legislatu...
The purpose of this paper is to show how the geometry of the quadratic utility function in the stand...
Abstract. In representative democracies, social choice requires the election of representatives to a...
Abstract: The theory of spatial voting has dominated scholarship on voting and elections. The spatia...
Poole and Rosenthal (1997) argue that most congressional voting can be understood in terms of a low-...
We test the spatial voting model under the hypothesis that the voter preferences are of a more gener...
We propose a modified spatial-voting rule to explain why congressional candidates adopt more extreme...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space to ...
The application of spatial voting theories to popular elections presupposes an electorate that choos...
Proposers strategically formulate legislative bills before voting takes place. However, spatial voti...
In representative democracies, social choice requires the election of representatives to a legislatu...
The purpose of this paper is to show how the geometry of the quadratic utility function in the stand...
Abstract. In representative democracies, social choice requires the election of representatives to a...
Abstract: The theory of spatial voting has dominated scholarship on voting and elections. The spatia...
Poole and Rosenthal (1997) argue that most congressional voting can be understood in terms of a low-...
We test the spatial voting model under the hypothesis that the voter preferences are of a more gener...
We propose a modified spatial-voting rule to explain why congressional candidates adopt more extreme...