Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting

by Keith T. Poole

Book Overview

This book presents a geometric voting model for analyzing parliamentary roll call data. Each legislator is represented by one point and each roll call is represented by two points that correspond to the policy consequences of voting Yea or Nay. On every roll call each legislator votes for the closer outcome point, at least probabilistically. These points form a spatial map that summarizes the roll calls. In this sense a spatial map is much like a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521617472
• ISBN13: 9780521617475
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"