Abstract: How can we measure issue-specific ideal points using roll-call votes? Ideal points have been widely used for measuring ideology, yet its nature of latent space makes it difficult to target a...
Tzu-Ping Liu and Takanori Fujiwara (University of California, Davis)
Abstract: Ideal point estimation and dimensionality reduction have long been utilized to simplify and cluster complex, high-dimensional political data (e.g., roll-call votes, surveys, and texts) for use in (preliminary) analysis and...