Review
Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment, Second Edition: by David A. Armstrong II, Ryan Bakker, Royce Carroll, Christopher Hare, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis Group, Chapman and Hall, Boca Raton, FL, 2021, ISBN 978-1-138-71533-2, 320 pp., $63.96 (hbk)
| Title: | Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment, Second Edition: by David A. Armstrong II, Ryan Bakker, Royce Carroll, Christopher Hare, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis Group, Chapman and Hall, Boca Raton, FL, 2021, ISBN 978-1-138-71533-2, 320 pp., $63.96 (hbk) |
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| Authors: | Lipovetsky, Stan |
| Source: | Technometrics; Feb 2022, Vol. 64 Issue 1, p139-143, 5p |
| Abstract: | The biplot presents voters and parties and permits interpretation of the axes as the left-right ideology and viability directions. Such data are the best available measures of voters' expected utility from political alternatives, capturing the considerations that voters use to make political choices: policy positions, party labels, valence or personal affect, etc. The book belongs to the I Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Series i , and it is devoted to problems of political sciences, spatial voting theory, measurement of political parties' positions on multiple issues, methodologies for comparative politics in aspects of ideology, psychology, and sociology. Over 160 experts placed all three vignette parties and between 8 and 17 experts placed each of the actual parties. [Extracted from the article] |
| Subject Terms: | LATENT variables, LEGISLATIVE voting, SCALE analysis (Psychology), LOW-rank matrices, POLITICAL manifestoes, HIERARCHICAL Bayes model |
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| ISSN: | 00401706 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00401706.2021.2020519 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |