Talk:Spatial model of voting

Notes for a future article
Basics and references


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum#Spatial_model
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_voting#Models_of_issue_voting
 * https://blogs.iq.harvard.edu/ideal_points_1
 * https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1627787 "We follow  Good  and  Tideman  (1976)  and  assume  that  the  positions  of  voters’ ideal points in attribute space follow a spherical multivariate normal distribution" ... "Our results suggest that a spatial model describes the statistical structure of P in actual  elections  much  better  than  any  other  model  that  has  been  proposed  so  far"
 * https://www3.cs.uic.edu/pub/Isaim2012/WebPreferences/ISAIM2012_ComSoc_Tideman_Plassmann.pdf
 * https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ccea/66f50b93b594822babe94c061e9ad44e7408.pdf same I think
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMINATE_(scaling_method)
 * Merrill 1984 1985
 * https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/ calls it “N-dimensional ideology”
 * https://ncase.me/ballot/ uses it
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304406815000518?via%3Dihub (with certain distributions, CW is typically UW)
 * "Spatial voting models are very common in the theoretical political science literature." "See e.g. Hinich and Munger (1997) or Enelow and Hinich (2008) for introductions to this literature."
 * Hinich, M.J., Munger, M.C., 1997. Analytical Politics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
 * Enelow, J.M., Hinich, M.J. (Eds.), 2008. Advances in the Spatial Theory of Voting. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Show various real-world example plots:
 * https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publication/political-divisions-in-2016-and-beyond
 * https://voxukraine.org/longreads/compass/article-en.html
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/ae3xvn/voters_vs_their_representatives_on_a_leftright/
 * https://imgur.com/gallery/OH03zEL
 * https://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/1-partisan-divides-over-political-values-widen/1_4-17/
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20181203100654/http://anothergodlessliberal.blog/2018/08/21/thoughts-on-political-polarization/
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/bmjpvl/how_often_are_condorcet_winners_also_utilitarian/enekcrh/
 * Example of a single issue being broken down into multiple dimensions with spectra of voter opinion available for each https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Assembly_(Ireland)#Votes

Wanted from


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Spatial_model_of_voting
 * https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Spatial_model_of_voting
 * https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:Lucasvb/An_upgrade_to_the_spatial_model_of_voters

— Psephomancy (talk) 23:55, 13 April 2020 (UTC)