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Forecasting Spanish Elections

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  • Pedro C. Magalhães

    (University of Lisbon, Social Sciences Institute)

  • Luís Francisco Aguiar

    (Universidade do Minho - NIPE)

  • Michael S. Lewis-Beck

    (University of Iowa)

Abstract

The behavior of the individual Spanish voter has come to be rather well-understood, thanks to a growing research literature. However, no models have appeared to explain, or to forecast, national election outcomes. The presence of this research gap contrasts sharply with the extensive election forecasting work done on other leading Western democracies. Here we fill this gap. The model, developed from core political economy theory, is parsimonious but statistically robust. Further, it promises considerable prediction accuracy of Spanish general election outcomes, six months before the contest actually occurs. After presenting the model, and carrying out extensive regression diagnostics, we offer an ex ante forecast of the 2012 general election.

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  • Pedro C. Magalhães & Luís Francisco Aguiar & Michael S. Lewis-Beck, 2011. "Forecasting Spanish Elections," NIPE Working Papers 17/2011, NIPE - Universidade do Minho.
    • Handle: RePEc:nip:nipewp:17/2011
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    1. Forecasting Spanish Elections: 2011 Spanish Pre-Election Report
      by Joshua Tucker in The Monkey Cage on 2011-09-21 23:51:53

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    5. Nadeau, Richard & Lewis-Beck, Michael S., 2020. "Election forecasts: Cracking the Danish case," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 36(3), pages 892-898.
    6. Andreas Graefe & Kesten C Green & J Scott Armstrong, 2019. "Accuracy gains from conservative forecasting: Tests using variations of 19 econometric models to predict 154 elections in 10 countries," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(1), pages 1-14, January.

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