The Libertarian Vote
The Libertarian Vote
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自由主义者投票
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.975672
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发表时间：
2006
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通讯作者：
D. Kirby
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作者：
D. Boaz;D. Kirby
传统观点认为，美国是一个几乎平均分为两种政治意识形态的国家：自由派与保守派、红州与蓝州。我们对选民和公众民意调查数据的研究表明，这种观点是不正确的;很大一部分选民既不属于自由派，也不属于保守派。特别是，我们发现大约13%的投票年龄的美国人可以被认为是自由主义者，倾向于在经济问题上与保守派达成一致，在许多社会问题上与自由派达成一致。更重要的是，这些自由意志主义选民越来越多地为两党发挥作用，他们代表了一个足以左右全国选举的集团。
Conventional wisdom holds that the United States is a country nearly evenly divided between two political ideologies: liberal vs. conservative, red state vs. blue state. Our study of voter and public polling data suggests this view is incorrect; a significant portion of voters can be classified as neither liberal nor conservative. In particular, we find that some 13 percent of voting-age Americans can be considered libertarian, tending to agree with conservatives on economic issues and with liberals on many social issues. What's more, these libertarian voters are increasingly in play for both parties, and they represent a bloc that is large enough to swing national elections.