AMBIENTUM BIOETHICA BIOLOGIA CHEMIA DIGITALIA DRAMATICA EDUCATIO ARTIS GYMNAST. ENGINEERING EPHEMERIDES EUROPAEA GEOGRAPHIA GEOLOGIA HISTORIA HISTORIA ARTIUM INFORMATICA IURISPRUDENTIA MATHEMATICA MUSICA NEGOTIA OECONOMICA PHILOLOGIA PHILOSOPHIA PHYSICA POLITICA PSYCHOLOGIA-PAEDAGOGIA SOCIOLOGIA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA LATIN THEOLOGIA GR.-CATH. VARAD THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA THEOLOGIA REF. TRANSYLVAN
The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary
The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.
Authors: PAUL E. SUM, GABRIEL BĂDESCU.
We first evaluate the propensity for individuals to place themselves on a left-right scale as individual recognition of political space. We then estimate the strength of certain social characteristics and attitudes that correlate with use of the left-right schema as a form of ideological identification, as well as the relative strength of the left-right schema as an indicator of voter choice.
In the final section, we consider macro-level factors that influence the variance found in ideological voting across cases. One of the main findings of the article is that in countries that had greater income disparity, we are more likely to observe ideological voting. The finding points to the importance that the left-right scale plays in structuring social conflict in the more traditional sense along class lines.
Keywords: ideology, left and right, political parties, vote, democracy
