Measuring left-right and libertarian authoritarian values in the British electorate
Measuring left-right and libertarian authoritarian values in the British electorate
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DOI：
10.2307/591118
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发表时间：
1996-03-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Lalljee, M
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作者：
Evans, G;Heath, A;Lalljee, M
巴特勒和斯托克斯对英国选民的权威分析得出的结论是，总的来说，选民的政治态度形成得不好，因此不稳定和不一致。本文通过开发和评估大众政治信仰的两个核心维度的多项目量表来重新审视这个问题：左翼-右翼和自由主义-威权主义价值观。事实证明，这些量表具有相当高的内部一致性，在一年内具有高度的稳定性，并且可以作为政党支持率的有用预测指标。在这些方面，它们与其他常用的政治态度、价值观和意识形态指标（左右自我定位、后物质主义和国有化态度）相比具有优势。这种优势适用于不同级别的政治参与。因此，与早期对英国大众政治意识形态的研究得出的结论相反，人们认为，总体而言，选民拥有有意义的政治信仰。此外，由于本研究中开发的量表是英国和北爱尔兰社会态度系列和最近英国选举研究的一部分，因此它们为进一步研究英国政治文化提供了重要资源。
Butler and Stokes' authoritative analysis of the British electorate concluded that in general voters' political attitudes were poorly formed and, in consequence, unstable and inconsistent. This paper re-examines this question by developing and evaluating multiple-item scales of two core dimensions of mass political beliefs: left-right and libertarian-authoritarian values. The scales are shown to have respectable levels of internal consistency, high levels of stability over a one-year period, and to be useful predictors of support for political parties. In these respects they compare favourably with other commonly used indicators of political attitudes, values and ideology (left-right self-placement, postmaterialism and attitudes to nationalization). This superiority applies across different levels of political involvement. Contrary to the conclusions of earlier research into mass political ideology in Britain, therefore, it is contended that in general the electorate has meaningful political beliefs. Moreover, as the scales developed in this research form part of the British and Northern Irish Social Attitudes Series and recent British Election Studies, they provide an important resource for further studies of political culture in the UK.