Electoral Competition and Decision Making in Multiparty Systems

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In this project we try to a) identify the ideological dimensions underlying the party competition in Germany, b) locate voters and parties in this space and c) to assess in a diachronic analysis on whether the space changes over time. For this aim we use the notion of ideological spaces as defined by the american political scientist Enelow, Hinich and Munger. The statistical analyses are based on new techniques of multidimensional scaling developed and pro-grammed by Hinich.

 

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