Identification and estimation of preference distributions when voters are ideological

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:	2015
Authors:	Merlo, Antonio ; de Paula, Áureo
Publisher:	London : Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
Subject:	Voting \| Voronoi tessellation \| identification \| nonparametric

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Series:	cemmap working paper ; CWP50/15
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1920/wp.cem.2015.5015 [DOI] 834447398 [GVK] hdl:10419/130066 [Handle] RePEc:ifs:cemmap:50/15 [RePEc]
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
Source:	EconStor

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