Chris Hanretty

'voting' Category

• Mar

  04

  2009

  Abstentions in the Italian parliament

  I’ve recently been investigating whethether high rates of abstentions and missing data cause problems for roll-call analysis of the Italian parliament. Here are some figures for the 14th Camera. Of the 1,141,673 possible votes (1657 rollcalls with 689 individuals):

  23.5% were votes in favour
  51.6% were votes against
  1.8% were registered abstentions
  23.1% were absent — that is, that [...]

  posted in academic, italy, parliament, voting by Chris