Construct Equivalence of Left-Right Scale Placement in a Cross-National Perspective

Zuell, Cornelia; Scholz, Evi

doi:10.1080/00207659.2018.1560982

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“…Arzheimer, 2019, 94–95 for some examples). Overall and in line with research using data for voters (Bauer et al, 2017; Zuell and Scholz, 2019), these findings imply that candidates’ interpretation of ‘left’ and ‘right’ not only depends on the political context but is also correlated with the placement on and, hence, affects the validity of the left–right scale.…”

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How stable are ‘left’ and ‘right’? A morphological analysis using open-ended survey responses of parliamentary candidates

2022

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The left–right scale is widely used to measure ideological orientation. Relying on Freeden's approach to political ideology as a ‘conceptual morphology’, we argue that the meaning of ‘left’ and ‘right’ may change, but these changes are more likely for peripheral than core concepts. To test this argument, we analyze open-ended questions on the meaning of ‘left’ and ‘right’ included in two waves of surveys of German parliamentary candidates collected before and after the 2015 European migration crisis. The empirical results based on Structural Topic Models show that the candidates’ party affiliation colours the connotations of political concepts. In particular, we find that the core concepts ascribed to the meaning of left and right remained stable, while changes occurred with one peripheral concept in particular, namely, ‘Racism’, which is most often ascribed to the term ‘right’. We conclude that morphological analysis can help better understand the concurrency of change and stability in ideological orientations and provides a fruitful linkage between electoral research and political theory.

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How stable are ‘left’ and ‘right’? A morphological analysis using open-ended survey responses of parliamentary candidates

2022

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“…(1), political orientation (centered), their interaction, random intercepts for participants within states, and random intercepts for states 3 (see Table 8). We centered political orientation within states because people living in different political cultures can use this scale with different reference points (Zuell & Scholz, 2019), but results are the same if we use grand-mean centering. Note.…”

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Who would mourn democracy? Liberals might, but it depends on who’s in charge

Benjamin¹,

Laurin²,

Chiang³

2021

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Despite widespread support for the principles of democracy, democratic norms have been eroding for over a decade, both globally and in the US in particular. We ask whether there are differences in how distressing American liberals, compared to conservatives, have found these declines. More importantly, we ask whether any such differences reflect fundamental asymmetries between political ideologies, or simply the fact that the current political context has different consequences for partisans at different ends of the spectrum. To this end, we examine ideological differences not only in America, but in other countries across the globe. Pre-registered laboratory experiments combined with analyses of World Values Survey data indicate that overall, liberals are more distressed than conservatives by low democracy. At the same time, this pattern emerges most strongly when the ruling party is conservative, and disappears (though it does not flip into its mirror image) when the ruling party is liberal. If democracy is worth protecting, our results suggest that not everyone, everywhere will feel the urgency.

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“…As a remedy, we conducted conceptual checks to make sure that, despite potential conceptual heterogeneities cross-nationally, there was no significant difference in the relationship between the measure of political ideology and those of health behavior among countries. When the situation allows, future research should include more substantive questions that allow researchers to measure cultural, economic, political, and social dimensions of the left-right distinction and construct an equivalent measure in a cross-national context ( Zuell C & Scholz, 2019 ).\…”

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Political ideology predicts preventative behaviors and infections amid COVID-19 in democracies

Tung¹,

Chang²,

Lin³

2022

Social Science & Medicine

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Construct Equivalence of Left-Right Scale Placement in a Cross-National Perspective

Cited by 26 publications

References 16 publications

How stable are ‘left’ and ‘right’? A morphological analysis using open-ended survey responses of parliamentary candidates

How stable are ‘left’ and ‘right’? A morphological analysis using open-ended survey responses of parliamentary candidates

Who would mourn democracy? Liberals might, but it depends on who’s in charge

Political ideology predicts preventative behaviors and infections amid COVID-19 in democracies

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