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://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://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/1-partisan-divides-over-political-values-widen/1_4-17/
- 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)