Belief Systems of Colombian Political Party Activists

Hoskin, Gary

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“…The results of these studies are based on surveys and allude to the preferences of political leaders and groups. In addition, they raise initial discussions about the dimension of political space from a partisan point of view (e.g., Hoskin and Swanson, 1973;Hoskin, 1979). For example, Hoskin and Swanson (1973), apply a version of the spatial model that is presented in Downs (1957) based on surveys to political actors with different hierarchies and from different parties.…”

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Bayesian spatial voting model to characterize the legislative behavior of the Colombian Senate 2010-2014

Luque¹,

Sosa²

2021

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This paper applies Bayesian methodologies to characterize the legislative behavior of the Colombian Senate during the period 2010-2014. The analysis is carried out through the plenary roll call votes of this legislative chamber. In addition, parliamentary electoral behavior is operationalized by implementing the onedimensional standard Bayesian ideal point estimator via the Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms. The results contribute mainly to two points: political space dimensionality and the identification of pivot legislators. The pattern revealed by the estimated ideal points suggests a latent non-ideological trait (oppositionnon-opposition) underlying the vote of deputies in the Senate. Thus, in addition to providing empirical evidence for a better understanding of legislative policy in Colombia during the period under analysis, this work also offers methodological and theoretical tools to guide the analysis of roll call vote data in contexts of unbalanced parliaments (as opposed to the U.S. parliament), taking the particular case of the Colombian Senate as a reference.

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Bayesian spatial voting model to characterize the legislative behavior of the Colombian Senate 2010-2014

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Sosa²

2021

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Party Elites and Leadership in Colombia and Venezuela

Martz

1992

J. Lat. Am. Stud.

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‘By studying political parties we imply that the party is a meaningful unit of analysis. Yet we go above the party as a unit, for we also study the party system. By the same token we can go below the party as a unit and study, thereby, the party subunits.’1 This statement by Giovanni Sartori, while published in 1976, might well have been a beacon for budding stasiologists of the early 1960s — certainly for those with a particular interest in Latin America. Following upon such Western European—orientated classics as the works of Maurice Duverger, Sigmund Neumann and Alfred Diamant,2 there seemed genuine intellectual impetus to produce significant scholarship on the parties of what were then customarily termed either the developing or the ‘non—western’ polities. For Latin America, the time appeared ripe for conceptual progress. To be sure, there was justification in remarking that the study of parties in the region was relatively new, while ‘methodo—logical accomplishments have been primitive’.3 Yet this condition was presumably transitory.In the years to follow there were more serious exploratory efforts, and in time a modest number of case—studies began appearing.4 When the cyclical alternation of democratic and dictatorial regimes began to swing toward the latter by the early 1970s, however, scholarly interest dropped off. More generally, stasiological research went into decline.5 For students of Latin America, only the recent trend toward democratisation has stimulated a revival of interest in parties, campaigns and elections.6 Thus Lorenzo Meyer, for instance, described parties as institutions necessary ‘to channel the energies of social movements, labour unions, and other antiauthoritarian forces present at the beginning of the re—emergence of civil society’.7

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A Bayesian spatial voting model to characterize the legislative behavior of the Colombian Senate 2010–2014

Luque

Sosa

2022

Journal of Applied Statistics

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Belief Systems of Colombian Political Party Activists

Cited by 3 publications

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Bayesian spatial voting model to characterize the legislative behavior of the Colombian Senate 2010-2014

Bayesian spatial voting model to characterize the legislative behavior of the Colombian Senate 2010-2014

Party Elites and Leadership in Colombia and Venezuela

A Bayesian spatial voting model to characterize the legislative behavior of the Colombian Senate 2010–2014

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