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The Structure of Utility in Spatial Models of Voting.

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 art...

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Published in:American Journal of Political Science (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 1008 - 1029
Main Authors: Carroll, Royce, Lewis, Jeffrey B., Lo, James, Poole, Keith T., Rosenthal, Howard
Format: Article
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Oct2013
Subjects:
Voting research
Gaussian function
Voting
Political science
Legislative voting
Scalia, Antonin, 1936-2016
Kennedy, Anthony M., 1936-
Agenda setting theory (Communication)
United States. Congress
United States. Supreme Court
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