Information about the “The Components of Elections,”

Electoral Studies

Scott Morgenstern and Richard F. Potthoff

This website contains the following materials*:

District-Level Electoral Data from Around the World

(including cases not in Electoral Studies paper)

SAS coding and instructions for applying components of variance analysis

Technical Notes on Uncontested Races, Algebra for Calculations, and Nesting

Notes on Parties, Districts, and Elections (for the analyses reported in the Electoral Studies paper and on this website)

Proportion of Variance Explained by Components  (for those cases shown in Table 3 of Electoral Studies paper)

Components-of-Variance Estimates: Selected Cases Not Included in Electoral Studies Paper

*This website covers some small parties and also uses data from other countries that were not covered in the Electoral Studies paper. We will continue to add additional data as they become available.