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Proximity-Based Preferences and Their Implications Based on Data from the Styrian Parliamentary Elections in 2019

In: Advances in Collective Decision Making

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  • Christian Klamler

    (Institute of Public Economics, University of Graz)

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Single-peaked preferences in political models are usually determined on a left-right political scale via the distance between a voter’s optimal location along that scale and the candidates’ positions. In this paper, we want to use a sort of proximity approach based on data from an exit poll undertaken right after the Styrian Parliamentary Elections in 2019. First, we show that a single-peakedness model does not perfectly fit the data, because there is no unanimous agreement on the order of the parties along the political left-right scale. Second, declared preferences and proximity-based preferences do differ significantly indicating that other factors do play a role in determining the voters’ preferences. Third, the actual impact of those other factors on the election results will be specified by comparing the (hypothetical) election results, using different well-known voting rules, for two preference profiles, one based on the stated preferences and one determined by proximity-based preferences.

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  • Christian Klamler, 2023. "Proximity-Based Preferences and Their Implications Based on Data from the Styrian Parliamentary Elections in 2019," Studies in Choice and Welfare, in: Sascha Kurz & Nicola Maaser & Alexander Mayer (ed.), Advances in Collective Decision Making, pages 337-354, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stcchp:978-3-031-21696-1_20
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21696-1_20
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