I'm specifically interested in electoral volatility. It measures the aggregate change in votes across all parties between two elections. But what if the distance between elections (in years) changes frequently? It seems reasonable to expect that countries with longer distances between elections would have higher levels of volatility. It also seems reasonable to expect that volatility would be different in a country if elections were held at 2 years apart and then at 7 years apart (for hypothetical). So: How could/should I adjust a country's electoral volatility if I want to "normalize" it (to take into account distance between the two elections) for inclusion in a cross-national statistical model? I haven't been able to find any leads on this through Google Scholar or other sources.

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