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Value orientation, left-right placement and voting
Deth van, Jan W. and Geurts, Peter A.T.M. (1989) Value orientation, left-right placement and voting. European Journal of Political Research, 17 (1). pp. 17-34. ISSN 0304-4130
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| Abstract: | In this article we try to disentangle the constraints between traditional lines of political polarization (left-right placement) and newer distinctions (materialist/postmaterialist values) among mass publics. It is shown that voting or party preference is most clearly related to the left-right placement of the respondents. However, this placement is directly and strongly dependent on the materialist/postmaterialist orientation, while background variables like education, income and age are linked to voting via this value orientation. The materialist/postmaterialist orientation appears to be the present-day interpretation of the dominant political conflict in advanced industrial society. Although alignments and orientations count for a substantive part of the variance in voting, the power of these models to predict the actual vote of people turns out to be rather poor. |
| Item Type: | Article |
| Copyright: | © 1989 Blackwell |
| Link to this item: | http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/58425 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.1989.tb00179.x |
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