Voter ideology in western democracies, 1946-1989

被引:103
作者
Kim, HM [1 ]
Fording, RC
机构
[1] Florida State Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[2] Univ Kentucky, Dept Polit Sci, Lexington, KY USA
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D O I
10.1111/1475-6765.00376
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
We propose a measure of voter ideology which combines party manifesto data compiled by Budge, Robertson, Heari, Klingemann, and Volkens (1992) and updated by Volkens (1995), with election return data. Assuming the comparability and relevance of left-right ideology, we estimate the median voter position in 15 Western democracies throughout most of the postwar period. The plausibility of our assumptions, and therefore the validity of our measure, is supported by the results of several validity tests. With this new measure we are able to make cross-national comparisons of voter ideology among these countries as well as cross-time comparisons within individual countries. We discuss the potential application of our measure to various debates in political science.
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页数:25
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