Preference heterogeneities should be included in political behavior models. We
demonstrate this using spatial policy distance measures. Different voters weight policy …

According to the proximity theory of voting, if parties and voters can all be represented on the
same policy issue dimension, voters will vote for the party that stands closest to their policy …

In most multidimensional spatial models, the systematic component of agent utility functions
is specified as additive separable. We argue that this assumption is too restrictive, at least in …

Explanations of electoral choice most frequently focus on the isolated characteristics of
voters and examine those characteristics using linear, additive formulations. We explore two …

Empirical models of spatial voting allow legislators' locations in a policy or ideological space
to be inferred from their roll‐call votes. These are typically random utility models where the …

We test the spatial voting model under the hypothesis that the voter preferences are of a
more general class than Eucledian. In particular, we allow the spatial metric to be elliptic …

Whiteley et al. criticize our re-analysis of the valence model of party choice. In reply, we
argue that they are mistaken with regard to their understanding of some of the claims made …

Existing spatial models of multiparty spatial competition have difficulty accounting for two
related features of party behavior: that parties typically propose divergent policy programs …

We propose and estimate a dynamic model of voting with asymmetric information
incorporating the three main factors affecting voting choices of individual citizens: party …

In this study, we propose a model of individual voter behavior that can be applied to
aggregate data at the district (or precinct) levels while accounting for differences in political …