Electoral behavior of US counties: a panel data approach

Economics Bulletin, 2002, vol. 3, issue 9, pages 1-10

Abstract: This note proposes an econometric framework for studying electoral returns using aggregate voting and socioeconomic panel data. Along with usual covariates, the model includes electoral unit effects, electoral subunit effects and time effects, and features nested groupings and heteroskedasticity. We apply the framework to model the electoral behavior of US counties in congressional elections.

Keywords: Elections; GLS; heteroskedasticity; individual effects; nested effects; panel data; voting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C5 D7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002 Written 2002-06-28

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