Coalition Bargaining & Latent Policy Spaces

• In Event: Parliamentary Politics and Electoral Systems

Brief Overview

Do parties and voters operate in the same latent policy space? Our research on EES, BES, ANES and CHES data shows that the spaces of pairs and the public differ in important way, with implications for democratic accountability.

Authors

• Scott De Marchi, Duke University

• Michael Ensley, Kent State University at Kent

• Seth Jolly, Syracuse University