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Measuring Political Preferences: Ratings for Members of the Swiss National Council
Author(s) -
Jeitzinger Bruno,
Hohl Tobias
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
swiss political science review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1662-6370
pISSN - 1424-7755
DOI - 10.1002/j.1662-6370.1997.tb00223.x
Subject(s) - politics , political science , measure (data warehouse) , political process , process (computing) , psychology , law , computer science , data mining , operating system
Abstract Party affiliation as the standard measure of political preferences of Swiss legislators is associated with several problems. To overcome these problems the authors develop ratings for members of the National Council, based on roll‐call votes. They discuss the construction of the ratings and their limitations in detail, and outline the importance of this kind of information for the participants of the political process, as well as some applications in empirical research.