Polimetrics

This course is aimed to teach to students the main theories and the connected statistical methods available in the literature to correctly estimate the policy space within which the political competition occurs as well as to measure the positions of political actors interacting in such space. Moreover, students will learn to apply the spatial theory of voting in different settings to better understand the entire political cycle: from electoral competition to government formation. To this aim, several different open-source softwares will be employed during the classes.