http://redbluerichpoor.com/blog/2008/11/what-happened-in-the-congressional-vote/ Why Americans Vote the Way they Do Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:59:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://redbluerichpoor.com/blog/2008/11/what-happened-in-the-congressional-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-1103 Andrew Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:11:06 +0000 http://redbluerichpoor.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1103 Mathematical theory is great; so is empirical work. I never met the late Henri Theil but I'd like to think he would've been happy to see empirical estimates of the seats-votes curve. The point of our paper is not to say that such a curve exists but to estimate what it is. Mathematical theory is great; so is empirical work. I never met the late Henri Theil but I’d like to think he would’ve been happy to see empirical estimates of the seats-votes curve. The point of our paper is not to say that such a curve exists but to estimate what it is.

]]> http://redbluerichpoor.com/blog/2008/11/what-happened-in-the-congressional-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-1102 Incredulous Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:34:25 +0000 http://redbluerichpoor.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1102 If you mean that there is a functional connection between % of seats and % of popular votes, yes that is demonstrated mathematically in the late Henri Theil's book "Econometrics and Information Theory". If you mean that there is a functional connection between % of seats and % of popular votes, yes that is demonstrated mathematically in the late Henri Theil’s book “Econometrics and Information Theory”.

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