POLS 489 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Weighted Arithmetic Mean
17 Nov 2016
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Spectrum on chart and how people identify themselves. Affects the policies and legislature (what is passed) For a vote to matter, one must look at the persons interests and not only their vote. Must know: what did the voter want and what did they actually get. Asking policy questions can take a long period of time. Examples: higher or lower taxes, more or less government involvement, etc. Instead of asking specific policy questions, powell asked people to identify themselves on a scale (left or right/1 or 10): apply answers to political parties and regions, determination if a voter is aligned with the party in power. Importance of median voters: always get what they want. Asked people to put voters on a scale and chose the median voter: median voter is the person that matters. Determination if a voter gets what they want. Averaged the number of voters and their party identification. Expert rankings on parties (on a scale)
