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

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 …

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 …

Most models assume that voting behaviour can be summarised by a single additive
equation. There are good reasons, however, for believing that some voters place more …

A previous paper showed that a simple prospective model of voting and party identification
subsumed much of the social-psychological and retrospective voting literatures, in the sense …

The debate over the relative importance of ideology versus party for vote choice in France is
enduring. Resolution of the debate would have much value, for the light shed on sources of …

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 …

The formal stochastic model of voting should be the theoretical benchmark against which
empirical models can be gauged. A standard result in the formal model is the 'mean voter …

This paper responds to Evans and Kat's critique of the valence politics model of electoral
choice. Their critique is deficient in several respects. First, the authors do not test the valence …

In this paper we describe the role of national election studies in voting behavior research in
Europe and the United States. We begin with an overview of the organizational development …