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.