Don't Forget the Independents: Modeling Macropartisanship as a Compositional Time Series

• In Event: Public Opinion about Partisanship

Brief Overview

Previous analyses of Macropartisanship ignore the fact that partisanship is a multicategory variable that includes Independents. This is both theoretically unsatisfying and methodologically perilous. We rectify this oversight in this paper.

Authors

• Spencer Goidel, Texas A&M University

• Paul M. Kellstedt, Texas A & M University-College Station

• Matthew J. Lebo, University of Western Ontario