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work horse for theories and empirical models in many fields of political science research, such as the equilibrium analysis in mass elections ... the estimation of legislators' ideal points ... and the study of voting behavior. ... Its generalization to the multidimensional policy space, the Weighted
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the underlying political landscapes ... are inherently multidimensional and cannot be reduced to a single left-right dimension, or even to a two-dimensional space. ... From this representation, lower-dimensional projections can be considered which help with the visualization of the political space
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developed several models for generating rated ballots, and recommend the spatial model as the most realistic. (Their empirical evaluation was based on two elections, the 2009 European Election Survey of 8 candidates by 972 voters, and the
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as resulting from an aggregation of voters' preferences. ... Even though the method aims to obtain a representation with as few dimensions as possible, we still obtain representations with four dimensions or more.
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Since our model is multi-dimensional, we can incorporate all criteria which we normally associate with a citizen's voting decision process — issues, style, partisan identification, and the like.
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Euclidean Distance (WED) model ... forms the stable theoretical foundation upon which nearly all present variations, extensions, and applications of multidimensional spatial voting rest.
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surveys, with 759 to 2,521 "voters.") A previous study by the same authors had found similar results, comparing 6 different models to the ANES data.
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If voter preferences have more than one peak along a dimension, it needs to be decomposed into multiple dimensions that each only have a single peak.
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Davis, Otto A.; Hinich, Melvin J.; Ordeshook, Peter C. (1970-01-01). "An Expository Development of a Mathematical Model of the Electoral Process".
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election data. (Their real-world data was 883 three-candidate elections of 350 to 1,957 voters, extracted from 84 ranked-ballot elections of the
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Rolland, Antoine; Aubin, Jean-Baptiste; Gannaz, Irène; Leoni, Samuela (2021-04-15). "A Note on Data Simulations for Voting by Evaluation".
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in this space, and preferring candidates closer to this point over those who are further away; these kinds of preferences are called
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A study of three-candidate elections analyzed 12 different models of voter behavior, including several variations of the
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The spatial theory of elections: an analysis of voters' predictive dimensions and recovery of the underlying issue space
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Stoetzer, Lukas F.; Zittlau, Steffen (2015-07-01). "Multidimensional Spatial Voting with Non-separable Preferences".
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Bouveret, Sylvain; Blanch, Renaud; Baujard, Antoinette; Durand, François; Igersheim, Herrade; Lang, Jérôme;
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Besides ideology, a dimension can represent any attribute of the candidates, such as their views on
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Egmond, Marcel Van; Brug, Wouter Van Der; Hobolt, Sara; Franklin, Mark; Sapir, Eliyahu V. (2013),
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Tideman, T. Nicolaus; Plassmann, Florenz (2012), Felsenthal, Dan S.; Machover, Moshé (eds.),
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of voting behavior. It describes voters and candidates as varying along one or more
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model, and found the spatial model to be the most accurate to real-world
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Electoral Systems: Paradoxes, Assumptions, and Procedures
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The earliest roots of the model are the one-dimensional
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Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Granić, Đura-Georg (2015-09-01).
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European Parliament Election Study 2009, Voter Study
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political science
social choice theory
mathematical model
axes
dimensions
ideal point
single-peaked
political spectrum or compass
one particular issue
impartial culture
ranked-ballot
Electoral Reform Society
American National Election Studies
thermometer scale
evaluative voting methods
2017 French presidential election
Hotelling's law
Black
median voter theorem
Issue voting § Models of issue voting
Location model
Budget-proposal aggregation


"The Source of Election Results: An Empirical Analysis of Statistical Models of Voter Behavior"
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