Credible Interpersonal Comparisons
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Measuring mass political preferences and
assessing quality of representation often depends on the measurement
of individual preferences and making credible interpersonal
comparisons. Using non-parametric methods with and without anchoring
objects, I have demonstrated improvements in measuring political
ideology and voting behavior, conceptions of citizenship and
immigration policy positions, and self-perceived political efficacy.
My non-parametric scaling of ideology better predicts voting than the
raw score or alternative measures, and can be seen as a non-parametric
version of the Aldrich-McKelvey scaling results.
PapersWand, Jonathan and G. King. (2007) Anchoring Vignettes in R: A (different kind of) Vignette. Data + Software |