Presents a geometric voting model for analyzing parliamentary roll call data. The model can be used to study various topics related to legislative voting, including how political parties evolve over t
Presents a geometric voting model for analyzing parliamentary roll call data. The model can be used to study various topics related to legislative voting, including how political parties evolve over t
In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes in 1789. By tracing the v
The idea of America as politically polarized -- that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states -- has become a cliché. What commentators miss, however, is that increa
Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--ar
The idea of America as politically polarized--that there is an unbridgeable dividebetween right and left, red and blue states--has become a cliche. What commentators miss, however,is that increasing p
The idea of America as politically polarized--that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states--has become a cliche. What commentators miss, however, is that increasing
Suitable for researchers and graduate students in the social sciences, this book shows how to apply spatial models using R to a wide range of data from political science and related areas. It also cov