In our new paper for @ejprjournal.bsky.social Tim Vlandas and I offer a mathematical statement and simulations to assess the extent of the 'atomistic' fallacy on #VotingBehaviour, and illustrate the problem empirically by focusing on the example of #FarRight voting- available below Open Access
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@dafnoukos.bsky.social & @ox.ac.uk's Tim Vlandas offer a mathematical statement and simulations to assess the extent of the 'atomistic' fallacy on #VotingBehaviour, and the issues with using European Social Survey data on #FarRight voting
The (forgotten) atomistic fallacy in political science and its implications for how we interpret elections