Mapping the Irish policy space: Voter and party spaces in preferential elections

In this note we map the Irish policy space, locating both voters and parties on the most salient policy dimensions in Ireland. Estimates of the voter locations are based on the Irish National Election Survey (INES), conducted in 2002. Estimates of the party positions are based on an expert survey of...

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Main Authors: BENOIT, Kenneth, LAVER, Michael
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-52602024-09-09T07:20:18Z Mapping the Irish policy space: Voter and party spaces in preferential elections BENOIT, Kenneth LAVER, Michael In this note we map the Irish policy space, locating both voters and parties on the most salient policy dimensions in Ireland. Estimates of the voter locations are based on the Irish National Election Survey (INES), conducted in 2002. Estimates of the party positions are based on an expert survey of party positions conducted by the authors in late 2002. We show that respondent self-placements on a priori policy scales are highly biased and difficult to interpret, and we rely instead on building scale positions for respondents from their answers to relevant attitude questions in the INES. The results provide a methodological template for locating voters and parties in a common space – a significant problem for any analyst who wants to create an empirical elaboration of a spatial model of party competition. 2005-06-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4002 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5260/viewcontent/2005_Benoit_MappingIrishPolicySpace_pv.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Political Science
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BENOIT, Kenneth
LAVER, Michael
Mapping the Irish policy space: Voter and party spaces in preferential elections
description In this note we map the Irish policy space, locating both voters and parties on the most salient policy dimensions in Ireland. Estimates of the voter locations are based on the Irish National Election Survey (INES), conducted in 2002. Estimates of the party positions are based on an expert survey of party positions conducted by the authors in late 2002. We show that respondent self-placements on a priori policy scales are highly biased and difficult to interpret, and we rely instead on building scale positions for respondents from their answers to relevant attitude questions in the INES. The results provide a methodological template for locating voters and parties in a common space – a significant problem for any analyst who wants to create an empirical elaboration of a spatial model of party competition.
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author BENOIT, Kenneth
LAVER, Michael
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title Mapping the Irish policy space: Voter and party spaces in preferential elections
title_short Mapping the Irish policy space: Voter and party spaces in preferential elections
title_full Mapping the Irish policy space: Voter and party spaces in preferential elections
title_fullStr Mapping the Irish policy space: Voter and party spaces in preferential elections
title_full_unstemmed Mapping the Irish policy space: Voter and party spaces in preferential elections
title_sort mapping the irish policy space: voter and party spaces in preferential elections
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2005
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4002
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5260/viewcontent/2005_Benoit_MappingIrishPolicySpace_pv.pdf
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