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Voter ideology in western democracies, 1946–1989

Kim, Heemin, Fording, Richard C.·1998·European Journal of Political Research
DOI 10.1023/a:1006882806861
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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 leftright 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 crossnational comparisons of voter ideology among these countries as well as crosstime comparisons within individual countries. We discuss the potential application of our measure to various debates in political science.

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Authors
Kim, H., & Fording, R. C.
Venue
European Journal of Political Research
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1998-01
Volume
33
Issue
1
Pages
73-97
ISSN
  • 0304-4130 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-6765
DOI
10.1023/a:1006882806861
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W2080440899
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323
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65
FWCI
11.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
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