The social identity voting model: Ideology and community structures

Social identity voting (SIV) is a new model of voting behavior based on the principles of social identity theory. We introduce and use this model to analyze roll call votes for the 35 th through 112 th US Congresses. Comparing out-of-sample accuracy of SIV and Poole and Rosenthal’s Weighted NOMINAL...

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Main Authors: Scott D Pauls, Greg Leibon, Daniel Rockmore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-04-01
Series:Research & Politics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168015570415