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Multiple Ideal Points: Revealed Preferences in Different Domains (2021)
Journal Article
Moser, S., Rodríguez, A., & Lofland, C. L. (2021). Multiple Ideal Points: Revealed Preferences in Different Domains. Political Analysis, 29(2), 139-166. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2020.21

We extend classical ideal point estimation to allow voters to have different preferences when voting in different domains—for example, when voting on agricultural policy than when voting on defense policy. Our scaling procedure results in estimated i... Read More about Multiple Ideal Points: Revealed Preferences in Different Domains.

Assessing differences in legislators’ revealed preferences: a case study on the 107th U.S. Senate (2017)
Journal Article
Lofland, C. L., Rodríguez, A., & Moser, S. (2017). Assessing differences in legislators’ revealed preferences: a case study on the 107th U.S. Senate. Annals of Applied Statistics, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1214/16-AOAS951

Roll call data are widely used to assess legislators’ preferences and ideology, as well as test theories of legislative behavior. In particular, roll call data is often used to determine whether the revealed preferences of legislators are affected by... Read More about Assessing differences in legislators’ revealed preferences: a case study on the 107th U.S. Senate.

Measuring and accounting for strategic abstentions in the US Senate, 1989-2012 (2015)
Journal Article
Moser, S., & Rodríguez, A. (2015). Measuring and accounting for strategic abstentions in the US Senate, 1989-2012. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 64(5), 779-797. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12099

Strategic abstentions—in which legislators abstain from votes for ideological reasons—are a poorly understood feature of legislative voting records. The paper discusses a spatial model for legislators’ revealed preferences that accounts for abstentio... Read More about Measuring and accounting for strategic abstentions in the US Senate, 1989-2012.