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Measuring Ideology, Dimensionality and Polarization in Politics

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This dissertation introduces a set of new statistical methods for measuring foundational constructs in political science: ideology, dimensionality and polarization. Using the proposed methods, I offer novel findings on multidimensional ideological characteristics of American Congress. The final chapter provides the first complete description of ideological coalitions in Korean National Assembly from its birth to the present by introducing a new structural model of ideal point estimation for non-voting datasets.

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