From Electoral Supply to Voter Perceptions: A New Framework to Understand Ideological Congruence between People and Representatives

• In Event: Mapping Votes to Seats and Other Outcomes

Brief Overview

An explanatory model for ideology congruence between citizenry and representatives based on 3 main independent variables: electoral supply (availability of ideologically close candidates); voters' perception of candidates ideology and valence voting.

Author

• Guilherme Pires Arbache, University of São Paulo