Work-in-Progress

A Voter-Centric, Multi-Level Theory of Party Performance: Rethinking Volatile Party Systems (HYBRID)

Thu
Apr
15
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Date
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Time
4:00pm
Event Type
Work-in-Progress
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Thomas Mustillo  Associate Professor, Keough School of Global Affairs; Director, Minor in Data Science; Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow
John Polga-Hecimovich  Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, United States Naval Academy

What accounts for vote choices in inchoate party systems? We approach this question with a theory rooted in voters as the unit of analysis, their party choices as the outcome, and their spatial and temporal locations as explanations for their preferences. We examine Ecuador to explore the theory and its implications.


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Thomas Mustillo

Thomas Mustillo is an associate professor of global affairs at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a concurrent professor of political science and program coordinator of the data science minor. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2018...
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