The Spatial (Geometric) Model of Voting and Party Competition: Theory
Figure 1.1 (Stewart): Competition for Customers
Between Two Shop Owners
Figure 1.2 (Stewart): Competition for Two
Candidates for Votes
Figure 1.3 (Stewart): Voting in a Committee
over Two Minimum Wage Proposals, X and Y
Figure 1.4 (Stewart): Quadratic Utility Function
Figure 2.2 (Poole and Rosenthal): Normal
Distribution Utility Function
Figure 2.1 (Poole): Two Fundamental Types of
Utility Functions
Utility Functions of Extremists
Figure 1.10 (Stewart): Two Dimensional
Quadratic Utility Function
Figure 1.10 (Ordeshook): Two Dimensional Quadratic
Utility Function
Indifference Curves Over Two Issue
Dimensions
Figure 1.11 (Stewart): Examples of Indifference
Curves
Bivariate Normal Utility Function
(Animated GIF)
Figure 1.18 (Stewart): Example of Different
Salience Weights
Indifference Curves Over Two
Issue Dimensions (Correlated Dimensions)
Bivariate Normal Utility Function
(Correlated Dimensions) (Animated GIF)
Figure 2.3 (Poole & Rosenthal): Roll Call Voting on One Basic
Dimension -- How Issue Mappings Occur
Figure 2.4 (Poole & Rosenthal): Roll Call Voting on Two Basic
Dimensions -- How Issue Mappings Occur
A Simple Model of Roll Call Voting