13:45 - 14:45
We-IPS06
Chair:
Bernardus Bakker (CBS, Netherlands), Christine Mhundwa (Journalist, Zimbabwe), Heli Lehtimäki (EC-Eurostat, Luxembourg)
Examining Undecided Voters in Multiparty Systems - An Approach with Discrete Choice Models under Ontic Imprecision
Dominik Kreiss, (Email)
LMU Munich

Within this work we suggest a way to include undecided voters in pre-election polls instead of neglecting them like in conventional analysis. We hereby develop new methodology in order to extend choice models to set-valued responses. The results of first applications are promising, providing new perspectives on political positions.