On Structural Analysis of Parliamentarian Voting Data
Volume 19, Issue 3 (2008), pp. 377–390
Pub. online: 1 January 2008
Type: Research Article
Received
1 October 2007
1 October 2007
Accepted
1 April 2008
1 April 2008
Published
1 January 2008
1 January 2008
Abstract
We investigate applicability of quantitative methods to discover the most fundamental structural properties of the most reliable political data in Lithuania. Namely, we analyze voting data of the Lithuanian Parliament. Two most widely used techniques of structural data analysis (clustering and multidimensional scaling) are compared. We draw some technical conclusions which can serve as recommendations in more purposeful application of these methods.