Strategic Abstention, Missing Data, and Ideal Point Estimation

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Ideal Point Estimation

Brief Overview

We propose an ideal point estimation method that treats abstentions as a strategic choice in the action space of legislators, and we show that this approach is better-suited than traditional methods to legislatures with absolute voting rules.

Authors

• Asya Magazinnik, MIT

• Sepehr Shahshahani, Princeton University