17:45 - 20:00
Friday-Panel
Chair/s:
Daniel Stegmueller
Discussant/s:
Daniel Stegmueller
Meeting Room E

Tasos Kalandrakis, Zuheir Desai
The Core of the Party System

Ali Kagalwala, Thiago Moreira, Guy Whitten
Let them eat pie: addressing the partial contestation problem in multiparty electoral contests

Flavio Azevedo
A Systematic Assessment of Ideological Measures: An empirical analyses

Miklós Sebők, Zoltán Kacsuk, Ákos Máté
The (real) need for a human touch: Testing a human-machine hybrid topic classification workflow on a New York Times corpus

Marlene Mußotter
Challenging the predominant measurement approach: presenting new measurement instruments for both nationalism and patriotism
Let them eat pie: addressing the partial contestation problem in multiparty electoral contests
Ali Kagalwala, Thiago Moreira, Guy Whitten
Texas A&M University

Although most scholars acknowledge that district-level election results are compositional variables, few model them as such. Instead, they tend to model the shares of single parties across districts, because of partial contestation (situations where not all parties field candidates in every electoral district). We advance the current framework on the compositional modelling of electoral contestation to include a sample-selection approach similar to Heckman’s and an intuitive approach that involves explicitly controlling for whether a party contests a particular district. We test these approaches against established compositional approaches using both simulated and real-world data.