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Patterns of Voting on Ballot Propositions: A Mixture Model of Voter Types
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- Dubin, Jeffrey A.
- Gerber, Elisabeth R.
Abstract
In this paper we analyze the patterns of behavior voters exhibit over a set of votes. We explore a set of structural estimation problems that involve analyzing several votes at one time and develop estimation techniques for identifying and analyzing patterns. Using the information in these patterns, we introduce a method for studying voter heterogeneity based on a finite mixture model. Finally, we employ data containing actual micro-level vote returns to estimate the mixture model parameters.
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We thank Ken McCue for help in obtaining the data and Henry Brady, Bruce Cain, Skip Lupia, David Grether, Rod Kiewiet, and Doug Rivers for helpful comments.Attached Files
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- 80923
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20170829-150410925
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2017-08-30Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2019-10-03Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Social Science Working Papers
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- Social Science Working Paper
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- 795