A New Spatial-Directional-Balance Model of Voting and Improved Statistical Methods for Analyzing Issue Voting, Demonstrating Robust Citizen Voice

• In Event: Information, Learning, and Decision-making in Politics

Brief Overview

New mathematical theorems and econometric specifications follow from a formal model of voting with congruence of candidate and voter positions, projection from vote choice to candidate positions, and persuasion from vote choice to voter positions

Author

• Henry E. Brady, University of California, Berkeley