Talk:Spatial models 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
• 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
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304406815000518?via%3Dihub (with certain distributions, CW is typically UW)

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)