Working Papers by Jonathan Nagler
# | Title | Authors | Date | Length | Paper | Abstract | |
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1071 | Should I stay or should I go? Sincere and strategic crossover voting in California Assembly Races | Alvarez, R. Michael Nagler, Jonathan | 10/01/1999 | ||||
1052 | Measuring The Relative Impact of Issues and The Econonmy in Democratic Elections | Alvarez, R. Michael Nagler, Jonathan Niemann (Willette), Jennifer R. | 01/01/1999 | sswp1052c.pdf | |||
1023 | A New Approach for Modeling Strategic Voting in Multiparty Elections | Alvarez, R. Michael Nagler, Jonathan | 10/01/1997 | 23 pages | sswp1023c.pdf | ||
1021 | Economics, Entitlements and Social Issues: Voter Choice in the 1996 Presidential Election | Alvarez, R. Michael Nagler, Jonathan | 10/01/1997 | 34 pages | wp1021.pdf | Theory: Contemporary theories of presidential election outcomes, especially the economic voting and spatial issue voting models, are used to examine voter choice in the 1996 presidential election. Hypotheses: First, we look at the effects of voter perceptions of the national economy onvoter support for Clinton. Second we look at the effects of candidate and voter positions on ideology and on a number of issues. Last, we examine whether respondents' views on other issues - social issues such as abortion as well as issues revolving around entitlements and taxation that were emphasized by the campaigns - played significant roles in this election. Methods: Multinomial probit analysis of the 1996 National Election Studies data; simulations based on counterfactual scenarios based on different macroeconomic conditions and different issue platforms of candidates. Results: The effects of economic perceptions are much greater than the effects of voter issue positions on the election outcome. Some social issues, namely abortion, did play a role in determining the election outcome. The presence of a third centrist candidate limited the ability of other candidates to improve their vote shares by moving in the issue space. | |
1019 | Analysis of Crossover and Strategic Voting | Alvarez, R. Michael Nagler, Jonathan | 09/01/1997 | wp1019.pdf | We undertake the analysis of primary elections from 1980 through 1996 using both academic individual level survey data, media exit-polls, and aggregate election returns on a county by county basis. We come to the following conclusions: 1. there is very little crossover voting in general in United States primaries; 2. the difference in the amount of crossover voting between states with open primaries and closed primaries is not substantively large; 3. the amount of strategic behavior on the part of voters is extremely small. | ||
979 | Explaining the Gender Gap in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1980-1992 | Chaney, Carole Alvarez, R. Michael Nagler, Jonathan | 08/01/1996 | sswp979c.pdf | |||
959 | When Politics and Models Collide: Estimating Models of Multi-Party Elections | Alvarez, R. Michael Nagler, Jonathan | 03/01/1996 | sswp959c.pdf | |||
949 | Issues, Economics and the Dynamics of Multi-Party Elections: The British 1987 General Election | Alvarez, R. Michael Bowler, Shaun Nagler, Jonathan | 01/01/1996 | sswp949c.pdf | |||
914 | Correlated Disturbances in Discrete Choice Models: A Comparison of Multinomial Probit Models and Logit Models | Alvarez, R. Michael Nagler, Jonathan | 12/01/1994 | sswp914.pdf | |||
902 | Voter Choice in 1992: Economics, Issues, and Anger | Alvarez, R. Michael Nagler, Jonathan | 09/01/1994 | sswp902.pdf | |||
878 | Change or Continuity in Presidential Politics: A Multinomial Probit Model of Candidate Choice in the 1992 Election | Alvarez, R. Michael Nagler, Jonathan | 01/01/1994 | sswp878.pdf |