Collaborative Research: Issues and Economics in Multiparty Democracies

合作研究：多党民主国家的问题和经济学

• 批准号: 9709327
• 负责人: Ramon Alvarez
• 金额: $ 8.5万
• 依托单位: California Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9709327&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Issues; Economics; Multiparty

This collaborative investigation researches the extent of issue-based and economic-based voting in advanced industrial democracies using new innovative discrete choice models. The research has both substantive and methodological components. The investigators employ an integrated model of vote choice which allows them to study the degree of issue- and economic-oriented voting in a set of eight nations. The model also allows investigation of the movement of political parties in issue space, the removal of parties from electoral competition, and changes in the economic context of the election. Methodologically the investigators employ an important discrete choice model new to political research. The researchers argue that past work on voter choice in multiparty democracies has been done using statistical models which impose very restrictive assumptions on how voters make their decisions amongst parties in multiparty systems. Of particular concern is the independence of irrelevant alternatives assumption. Their model, for this project, does not impose this assumption on voters, and it also provides a very flexible way to model multiparty elections empirically. This project will substantially enhance our understanding of the topic and will inform the methodological and theoretical debate about it.

这项合作调查研究了基于问题和基于经济的投票在先进的工业民主国家使用新的创新离散选择模型的程度。这项研究既有实质性内容，也有方法论内容。调查人员采用了一种投票选择的综合模型，使他们能够研究八个国家中以问题和经济为导向的投票的程度。该模型还允许调查政党在议题空间中的运动，政党从选举竞争中移除，以及选举经济背景的变化。在方法上，研究者采用了一个重要的政治研究新离散选择模型。研究人员认为，过去关于多党制民主国家选民选择的研究一直是使用统计模型来完成的，这些模型对多党制下选民如何在政党之间做出决定施加了非常严格的假设。特别值得关注的是不相关选择假设的独立性。他们的模型，在这个项目中，并没有把这个假设强加给选民，它也提供了一个非常灵活的方法来模拟多党选举的经验。这个项目将大大提高我们对这个主题的理解，并将为关于它的方法论和理论辩论提供信息。