Prof Dr CEES VAN DER EIJK CEES.VAN_DER_EIJK@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Social Science Research Methods
Prof Dr CEES VAN DER EIJK CEES.VAN_DER_EIJK@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Social Science Research Methods
Martin Kroh
Electoral researchers are so much accustomed to analyzing the choice of the single most preferred party as the left-hand side variable of their models of electoral behavior that they often ignore revealed preference data. Drawing on
random utility theory, their models predict electoral behavior at the extensive margin of choice. Since the seminal work of Luce and others on individual choice behavior, however, many social science disciplines (consumer research, labor market research, travel demand, etc.) have extended their inventory of observed preference data with, for instance, multiple paired comparisons,
complete or incomplete rankings, and multiple ratings. Eliciting (voter) preferences using these procedures and applying appropriate choice models is known to considerably increase the efficiency of estimates of causal factors in
models of (electoral) behavior. In this paper, we demonstrate the efficiency gain when adding additional preference information to first preferences, up to full
ranking data. We do so for multi-party systems of different sizes. We use simulation studies as well as empirical data from the 1972 German election study. Comparing the practical considerations for using ranking and single
preference data results in suggestions for choice of measurement instruments in different multi-candidate and multi-party settings.
van der Eijk, C., & Kroh, M. Optimal choice of electoral preference data.
Conference Name | Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association |
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End Date | Aug 31, 2008 |
Deposit Date | Mar 25, 2010 |
Peer Reviewed | Not Peer Reviewed |
Keywords | survey; survey questions; election survey; election study; party preference; choice behaviour; choice models; statistical power; efficiency of statistical estimates; simulation data; random utility theory; single preferences; multiple preferences |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1015187 |
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