Attitudes to Leadership and Voting: Finding the Efficient Frontier

Brent Davis

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Winning elections is essentially a matter of translating the attitudes of voters into votes. Although this proposition may sound simple, the reality is considerably more challenging. Despite vast scholarship over many years we know very little, if anything, about the efficiency with which the inputs (voter attitudes) to the political process are converted into outputs (vote support). Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) provides a statistical method to measure the efficiency with which inputs are converted into outputs. The results of the DEA analysis and associated modelling find marked differences in the political efficiency of recent Australian political leaders.

Keywords: campaigns; election; politimetric modelling; Data Envelopment Analysis; voter behaviour; political marketing; Australian elections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C13 C5 C51 C53 C54 H1 H11 K0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08
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