Productivity-based retrospective voting: Legislative productivity and voting in the 2019 European Parliament elections

Strategic Non-Voting in European Parliament Elections

Legislative Voting in the Canadian Parliament

The paper applies a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation methodology to scale roll call votes in the 35 and 38 Canadian Parliaments over a multidimensional policy space. The results clearly demonstrate that policy debates are two-dimensional in Canada. The first dimension represents the classical division between the governing and the opposition parties that has been found in similar Pa...

Voting in legislative elections under plurality rule

Conventional models of single district plurality elections show that with three parties anything can happen extreme policies can win regardless of voter preferences. I show that when there are multiple district elections for a legislature we get back to a world where the median voter matters: an extreme policy will generally only come about if it is preferred by the median voter in a majority o...

Some further estimations for: Voting and economic factors in French elections for the European Parliament

The purpose of this note is to complete the estimates made in Auberger (2012) for French presidential elections. We study the influence of the local unemployment on the vote for French presidential elections. We build another variable taking into account the responsibility of the incumbent President for the economic situation after a cohabitation period. We also make estimates for the second-ro...

Who Represents Whom: Strategic Voting and Conservatism in Legislative Elections∗

This paper examines voting equilibria in a citizen-candidate model with multiple constituencies. Voters in the constituencies elect representatives into a legislative assembly to make a policy choice. Representatives both make policy proposals and vote on each others’ proposals. The model thus formalizes the distinction between advocated policy and enacted policy in representation problems. Und...