Measuring Issue-Specific Preferences From Votes Sooahn Shin (Harvard University) Abstract: How can we measure issue-specific ideal points using roll-call votes? Ideal points have been widely used for measuring ideology, yet its... Read More Measuring Issue-Specific Preferences From Votes
Contrastive Multiple Component Analysis (cMCA): Applying the Contrastive Learning Method to Identify Political Subgroups Tzu-Ping Liu and Takanori Fujiwara (University of California, Davis) Abstract: Ideal point estimation and dimensionality reduction have long been utilized to simplify and cluster complex... Read More Contrastive Multiple Component Analysis (cMCA): Applying the Contrastive Learning Method to Identify Political Subgroups
Non-Parametric Bridging of Non-Parametric Ideological Scales: Application to Mapping Voters on Politicians’ Ideological Space Tzu-Ping Liu, Gento Kato and Samuel Fuller (University of California, Davis) Abstract: Bridging ideological estimates of various groups and polities is an important, but relatively... Read More Non-Parametric Bridging of Non-Parametric Ideological Scales: Application to Mapping Voters on Politicians’ Ideological Space