Identification and estimation of preference distributions when voters are ideological

Antoine Merlo; Áureo de Paula

This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be consistently estimated and illustrate our analysis by performing an actual estimation using data from the 1999 European Parliament elections.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Merlo, Antoine ; Paula, Áureo de
Publisher:	London : Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
Subject:	Voting \| Voronoi tessellation \| identification \| nonparametric \| Wahlverhalten \| Voting behaviour \| Theorie \| Theory \| Statistische Verteilung \| Statistical distribution \| Ideologie \| Ideology \| Nichtparametrisches Verfahren \| Nonparametric statistics \| Nichtparametrische Schätzung \| Nonparametric estimation \| EU-Staaten \| EU countries

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (66 S.) graph. Darst.
Series:	CEMMAP working papers / Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice. - London : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1753-9196, ZDB-ID 2106928-1. - Vol. 51/13
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	10.1920/wp.cem.2013.5113 [DOI] hdl:10419/97362 [Handle]
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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