Can we aggregate voters’ perceptions of political parties’ left–right positions? Formal and probabilistic tests of the left–right scale as a unidimensional common space on cross-national and longitudi... The left–right scale is widely assumed to be a common space, a joint yardstick that facilitates political communication. Aggregate voter perceptions of party positions on the left–right scale are wide...

Can we aggregate voters’ perceptions of political parties’ left–right positions?

by @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social
@ackermannk.bsky.social and Huib Pellikaan

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Leftrightdimension #Voters #Commonspace #Spatialmodel #Transitiveordering