Ideological Congruence: Illusion or Imperfection?
| Autor: | G. Bingham Powell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Polarization (politics) 0211 other engineering and technologies Illusion 02 engineering and technology Liberal democracy 0506 political science Congruence (geometry) 050602 political science & public administration Ideology Sociology Positive economics Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Legislative Studies Quarterly. 43:21-32 |
| ISSN: | 0362-9805 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/lsq.12177 |
| Popis: | Paul Warwick (2016) argues that much of the research on ideological congruence leaves the erroneous impression that a close match of median left-right voter opinions and government ideological positions usually emerges from elections. I propose further clarifications. I offer a “natural metric” based on the average distances from the median voter of the most distant and the closest parties competing in all these countries’ elections. I suggest that by these standards average ideological congruence in the Western liberal democracies in the last 20 years has been fairly successful, but not as successful as it could be. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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