Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters Are Ideological, Second Version

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:	2010-12-31
Authors:	Merlo, Antonio ; Paula, Aureo de
Institutions:	Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Subject:	Voting \| Voronoi tessellation \| identification \| nonparametric

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	PIER Working Paper Archive.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	62 pages
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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