Integrality and separability in multidimensional voting models: ideology and nationalism in Spanish regional elections

• Autores: Gonzalo Rivero Rodríguez
• Localización: Estudios / Working Papers ( Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales ), ISSN-e 2341-1961, Nº. 265, 2011, 24 págs.
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper analyzes how voters evaluate distance to parties on the ideological and nationalistic dimensions in Spain, using a generalized model that allows me to distinguish the effect of spatial proximity, the weight voters give to each dimension, and the metric (Euclid or Manhattan) that they use to evaluate closeness. I apply this model to post-electoral surveys in Galicia, the Basque Country, and Catalonia �three regions where the political arena is known to be structured along more than one dimension. The results strongly support that voters use a Manhattan metric in all three regions.