The Dimensions of Political Ideology
- 1 June 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 93 (1) , 119-131
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1974.9923136
Abstract
A highly educated sample of 63 politically elite people rated 60 items concerned with political matters on several bipolar scales and also sorted the items into groups according to their similarity to one another. An analysis of the subjects' agreement ratings of the 60 items (on one of the bipolar scales) yielded two “point of view” groups: liberal and moderately conservative. A multidimensional scaling analysis of the items, based on the similarity sorting data, yielded only one dimension: Left-Right.Keywords
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