Estimating Spatial Preferences from Votes and Text

We introduce a model that extends the standard vote choice model to encompass text. In our model, votes and speech are generated from a common set of underlying preference parameters. We estimate the parameters with a sparse Gaussian copula factor model that estimates the number of latent dimensions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kim, In Song, Londregan, John, Ratkovic, Marc
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118644
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5774-1585