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- Title
Directional and Euclidean Theories Of Voting Behavior: A Legislative Comparison.
- Authors
Platt, Glenn; Poole, Keith T.; Rosenthal, Howard
- Abstract
Recent research by Rabinowitz and Macdonald (1989) claims that voting behavior is better accounted for by a directional model than by a traditional proximity or Euclidean model. This paper compares directional and Euclidean models using congressional roll-call voting data. For these relatively well-informed voters, we can unambiguously reject the directional model in favor of the traditional Euclidean spatial model. We conclude that congressional voting can indeed be very accurately represented by the Euclidean model.
- Subjects
UNITED States; VOTING research; RABINOWITZ, George; MACDONALD, Stuart; DIRECTIONAL derivatives; VOTERS; EUCLIDEAN algorithm; LEGISLATIVE veto in the United States; UNITED States Congressional voting
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1992, Vol 17, Issue 4, p561
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/439866