Immigration, Europe and the ‘new’ cultural dimension

Brug, Wouter van der; Spanje, Joost van

doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.2009.00841.x

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“…70 Benoit and Laver 2006;McCarty, Poole and Rosenthal 2006;Van der Brug and Van Spanje 2009. political ideology 71 as well as the quality of democratic representation. 72 The present research provided a large-scale cross-national test of the typical relationship between cultural and economic attitudes within mass publics around the world.…”

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Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test

Malka¹,

Lelkes²,

Soto³

2017

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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The right-left dimension is ubiquitous in politics, but prior perspectives provide conflicting accounts of whether cultural and economic attitudes are typically aligned on this dimension within mass publics around the world. Using survey data from ninety-nine nations, this study finds not only that right-left attitude organization is uncommon, but that it is more common for culturally and economically right-wing attitudes to correlate negatively with each other, an attitude structure reflecting a contrast between desires for cultural and economic protection vs. freedom. This article examines where, among whom and why protection-freedom attitude organization outweighs right-left attitude organization, and discusses the implications for the psychological bases of ideology, quality of democratic representation and the rise of extreme right politics in the West.Keywords: public opinion; political ideology; political attitude constraint; political psychology; comparative politicsThe right-left ideological dimension is a fundamental feature of politics in many nations around the world. 1 This article examines the relationship between two preference dimensions that are widely recognized as central to ideological differences between the right and left: the economic dimension, which concerns redistributive social welfare preferences and views about the proper scope of government economic involvement, and the cultural dimension, which concerns views on matters such as sexual morality and immigration. 2 Within mass publics around the world, do people who hold right-wing cultural attitudes also tend to adopt right-wing economic attitudes? Do left-wing cultural attitudes typically go with left-wing economic attitudes? The established view from political science is that there do not exist psychological constraints that would make this the case for most of the people most of the time. 3 In contrast, an influential research tradition within psychology specifies that cultural and economic conservatism have common psychological origins and thus typically co-occur. 4 Despite its theoretical importance and potential implications for quality of democratic representation, the typical association between cultural and economic attitudes within mass publics around the world has not been firmly empirically established.In this article we report what is to our knowledge the largest cross-national test to date of this empirical relationship, using World Values Survey (WVS) data from 229 national samples spanning ninety-nine nations. We furthermore examine how the alignment of these two dimensions varies across people and contexts. Our findings suggest that: (1) it is not typical for

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“…35 Baldassari and Gelman 2008;Federico and Schneider 2007;Feldman and Johnston 2014;Jacoby 1991;Jennings 1992;Lupton, Myers, and Thornton 2015. 36 Bakker, Jolly and Polk 2012;Duriez, Van Hiel, and Kossowska 2005;Marks et al 2006;Thorisdottir et al 2007. 37 Van der Brug andvan Spanje 2009. 38 Altemeyer 1988.…”

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Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test

Malka¹,

Lelkes²,

Soto³

2017

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

164

226

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“…Most fundamentally, this means that both share the same understanding of ideology -that is, that the scales tap the same latent ideological dimension (and only this dimension) for both users and elites. This is not a trivial assumption; issues do not always relate the same way for voters and elites (Kriesi et al, 2006;van der Brug and van Spanje, 2009). If equivalence is not given, comparisons will be systematically biased and the estimates of ideological congruence will not reflect 'true' differences.…”

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Spatial maps in voting advice applications: The case for dynamic scale validation

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Low-dimensional spatial representations of political preferences are a widespread feature of voting advice applications (VAAs). Currently, VAA spatial maps tend to be defined on the basis of a priori reasoning. This article argues that VAA spatial maps should be empirically validated to safeguard fundamental psychometric properties -in particular, unidimensionality and reliability. We suggest dynamic scale validation as a pragmatic method for improving measurement quality in VAA spatial maps. The basic logic of dynamic scale validation is to exploit early user data as a benchmark against which ex-ante defined maps can be evaluated. We draw on data from one of the most institutionalised VAA settings, Switzerland, to illustrate this dynamic approach to scale validation.

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“…Winning PRR strategies may no longer be confined to the capitalist-authoritarian sector of the competitive space. Recent research suggests that significant sectors of the West European electorate cluster around positions combining left-wing economics with sociocultural authoritarianism, which have the potential to create a new successful location for the PRR ( Van der Brug and Van Spanje, 2009;Lefkofridi et al, 2014). Betz and Meret (2013) see right-wing populist parties such as the FN moving in that direction.…”

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Towards the median economic crisis voter? The new leftist economic agenda of the Front National in France

Ivaldi

2015

Fr Polit

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International audienceThe Front National (FN) has made an impressive come back into France’s electoral politics since 2012. Adopting a supply-side approach, this article places the electoral rejuvenation of the FN in the context of the global crisis and looks at how the party has adapted programmatically to socio-economic demands emerging from this context. On the basis of manifesto data analysis, we find that despite having recently broadened its economic programme, the FN maintains a niche status in the party system. Our findings show, however, that the party has significantly shifted its economic platform, moving from a predominantly right-wing to a left-wing location since the mid-1980s. This move is characterized by an increase in egalitarian and nationalist economic policies, espousing also a populist framework. The reconfiguration of the FN suggests that the party may have moved to a pivotal position in recent years by converging around the economic preferences of the median voter. We discuss the role of internal and external factors in explaining the economic policy shift by the FN, and consider possible implications of our findings for understanding current populist radical right electoral dynamics in Europe

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Immigration, Europe and the ‘new’ cultural dimension

Cited by 342 publications

References 25 publications

Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test

Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test

Spatial maps in voting advice applications: The case for dynamic scale validation

Towards the median economic crisis voter? The new leftist economic agenda of the Front National in France

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