Votes and policy preferences 1987-1991

<p>Study of spatial models of political party competition with starting point the Downs model. therefor political experts were asked to scale several political parties on a socio-economic left-right scale with 100 points. ideological left-right optimum of political parties / margins of the optimum / influence of 2 political objectives for each party: 1. the votes of an as large as possible proportion of the electorate 2. the actualization of ideological preferences / actual position on left-right scale of parties / deviation of ideological optimum / experts voting behaviour at national elections 1989 / occupational group expert belongs to: parliamentary journalists, ex-politicians, social scientists / constructed variables. Background variables: politics</p>本研究以唐斯模型（Downs model）为起点，开展政党竞争空间模型相关研究。研究过程中，邀请政治领域专家将多个政党置于带有100个刻度的社会经济左右翼维度上进行维度标定。本次研究涉及的变量包括：各政党的意识形态左右翼最优立场、最优立场的波动范围；每个政党的两项政治目标的影响效应：其一，获得尽可能高比例的选民选票；其二，实现意识形态偏好；此外还包括各政党在左右翼维度上的实际站位、意识形态最优立场的偏差程度、受访专家在1989年全国大选中的投票行为、受访专家所属职业群体（议会记者、前政客、社会科学家），以及构造变量。背景变量为政治领域相关变量。