tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052593945054595675.post8922182219798302100..comments2024-03-28T14:16:10.498+11:00Comments on Dr Kevin Bonham: Legislative Council Voting Patterns 2013-7Kevin Bonhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06845545257440242894noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052593945054595675.post-55417798444940898382017-04-07T13:10:03.607+10:002017-04-07T13:10:03.607+10:00Thanks Kevin. Thanks Kevin. Jack Arandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06210027164177789357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052593945054595675.post-48201224375742268722017-04-07T12:19:40.354+10:002017-04-07T12:19:40.354+10:00My suspicion - the more I've thought about it ...My suspicion - the more I've thought about it - is that in this year's PCA graph specifically, the Rattray and Armitage factors are artificial and result mainly from the pre-setting of a high agreement factor for each MLC with themselves. If this is right then for this year specifically, everything is really noise except the left-right pattern, which displays itself across a wide range of issues (especially forestry and culture-war issues like anti-discrimination law).<br /><br />This hasn't always been the case. For instance for the 2010-3 analysis (http://kevinbonham.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/legislative-council-voting-patterns.html) the 2D graph distinguishes between the Liberals and most of the conservative independents, so the second axis in view of Mulder's voting at the time looks something like ruralism vs libertarianism (but slightly tilted).Kevin Bonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06845545257440242894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052593945054595675.post-20915335774859943332017-04-07T11:47:47.741+10:002017-04-07T11:47:47.741+10:00After people have run this correlation-based sort ...After people have run this correlation-based sort of analysis which generates axes without prior reference to ideologies, it's usually possible to look at the issues that they've voted on and give some sort of name to the axes. Here you've noted that the main axis is pretty clearly the usual left-right stuff. So is there any sort of label that you can give to the "Rattray factor", or to the "Armitage factor" that seems to form your 3rd axis? Do the issues where they vote one way or t'other, that generate these axes in your computer, seem to be "social" isues, or local issues, or does it all just seem idiosyncratic and beyond classification? Jack Arandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06210027164177789357noreply@blogger.com