Several recent studies of voter choice in multiparty elections point to the advantages of
multinomial probit (MNP) relative to multinomial/conditional logit (MNL). We compare the …

Theory: The spatial model of elections can better be represented by using conditional logit
models which consider the position of the parties in issue spaces than by multinomial logit …

Political researchers are often confronted with unordered categorical variables, such as the
vote-choice of a particular voter in a multiparty election. In such situations, researchers must …

Mixed logit (MXL) is a general discrete choice model thus far unexamined in the study of
multicandidate and multiparty elections. Mixed logit assumes that the unobserved portions of …

Voters in multicandidate contests may confront circumstances under which it is in their
interest to vote for a second-or even lower-ranked candidate. The US electoral system …

Questions of causation are important issues in empirical research on political behavior. Most
of the discussion of the econometric problems associated with multiequation models with …

This paper develops an estimator for models of election returns in multiparty elections. It
shares the same functional formas the Katz—King estimator but is computationally simpler …

We contrast social-structural theories of voting behavior with spatial theories of voting
behavior to explain voter choice in the Netherlands and Great Britain. We hypothesize that …

As the research methodology more closely approximates the causal process being
analyzed, the inferences and predictions derived from that methodology will better represent …

As a dependent variable, party choice did not lend itself to analysis by means of powerful
multivariate methods until the coming of discrete-choice models, most notably conditional …