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6 - Placing Preferences and Policies on a Common Scale

from Part I - Stages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2020

Brian F. Crisp ,
Santiago Olivella  and
Guillermo Rosas
Brian F. Crisp
Affiliation:
Washington University, St Louis
Santiago Olivella
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Guillermo Rosas
Affiliation:
Washington University, St Louis
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We learn from this excursus that the amount of available information covaries significantly with the discriminating power of different stimuli, but not with the recovered country-specific “policy moods,” which are the quantities of interest. Our policy moods summarize respondents’ views on a number of stimuli; although these stimuli are not consistently repeated year after year, the summaries relay information about policy stances, and not only information about the number of stimuli included in any given year.

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common scaleMcGannAldrich–McKelveyStimson
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The Chain of Representation
Preferences, Institutions, and Policy across Presidential Systems
 , pp. 91 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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