Competitive elections and the Votes-Seats Curve

• In Event: Electoral Competition

Brief Overview

Models of the votes-seats curve are potentially confounded by "missing" votes in uncompetitive elections. We test a variety of methods for imputing missing votes as a way to account for this confounder.

Authors

• David Cottrell, University of Georgia

• Ken Kollman, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Daniel Blyth Magleby, SUNY at Binghamton