Las Elecciones Presidenciales De 2006 En Mexico: Fueron Importantes Las Posturas Sobre Los Distintos Temas De Politicas Publicas?
In: Foro internacional: revista trimestral, Volume 51, Issue 3, p. 505-540
ISSN: 0185-013X
Research on public opinion has found that respondents to survey questions lack true attitudes towards different economic and moral issues. Given the latter, these respondents do not use their stance towards these issues to decide for which party or candidate to vote for. One of the main reasons for these dismal findings lies on the existence of measurement error. The paper presents a technique that corrects for measurement error and tests the importance of issues stances in the vote choice of the Mexican electorate during the 2006 Presidential Election. The paper also analyzes the significance of a "perceived issue space" and demonstrates that this concept is important to understand which particular issue stances matter and which ones do not in a voting decision. Adapted from the source document.