Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters Are Ideological

Antonio Merlo and Aureo de Paula

The Review of Economic Studies, 2017, vol. 84, issue 3, 1238-1263

Abstract: This article studies the non-parametric identification and estimation of voters’ preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be consistently estimated and illustrate our analysis by performing an actual estimation using data from the 1999 European Parliament elections.

Keywords: Voting; Voronoi tessellation; Identification; Non-parametric (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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