Political ideology

Maite Laméris and Richard Jong-A-Pin

Chapter 83 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice, 2025, pp 607-612 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, we study the role of political ideology in public choice research. Our first aim is to discuss how public choice researchers use ideology to study economic outcomes. We distinguish between studies on the microeconomic and the macroeconomic level, considering both voter and party/government ideology. Most studies within public choice regard ideology as a one-dimensional construct. That is, ideology is theorized and operationalized as a linear construct. However, the assumption of this one-dimensionality has also been criticized. Therefore, our second aim is to consider this criticism and challenge the conventional wisdom that political ideology is a one-dimensional construct.

Keywords: Political Ideology; Dimensionality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802207743
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