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Left/Right Ideology and Canadian Politics

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The authors examined the influence of ideology in Canadian politics and found that the ideological disagreement between the left and the right is asymmetrical, that is, that leftists and rightists bundle in different ways their opinions about issues.
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. This article examines the influence of ideology in Canadian politics. The core theory is that political opinions are bound together into ideological clusters by underlying influences that affect simultaneously the opinions of individuals about more than one issue. The central hypothesis is that ideological disagreement between the left and the right is asymmetrical, that is, that leftists and rightists bundle in different ways their opinions about issues. The analysis draws on evidence from Benoit and Laver's survey of experts (2006) about the policy positions of political parties, the Comparative Manifesto Research Project (Budge et al., 2001; Klingemann et al., 2006), and Cross and Young's survey of Canadian political party members (2002). The results of the analysis indicate, first, that Canada's left/right ideological divide is wide by cross-national standards, and, second, that leftists and rightists organize their opinions about the world in different ways.Resume. Cet article examine l'influence des ideologies dans l'environnement politique canadien. La theorie centrale stipule que les opinions politiques sur diverses questions sont structurees en groupes ideologiques consolides par des influences sous-jacentes qui affectent simultanement les opinions des individus. L'hypothese principale decoulant de cette theorie est que la structure du desaccord ideologique entre la gauche et la droite est asymetrique; plus precisement, que les individus situes a la gauche et a la droite du spectre politique canadien organisent de maniere differente leurs opinions politiques. L'analyse s'appuie tout d'abord sur les donnees d'un sondage aupres d'experts politiques realise par Benoit et Laver (2006) et portant sur les positions politiques des partis. Elle utilise egalement les donnees du Comparative Manifesto Research Project (Budge et al. 2001; Klingemann et al., 2006) et celles d'un sondage d'opinion de Cross et Young (2002) effectue aupres des membres de partis politiques canadiens. Les resultats de cette etude demontrent, en premier lieu, qu'il existe un clivage important entre la droite et la gauche au Canada meme lorsqu'il est observe dans une perspective comparative, et en second lieu, que les individus se situant a la gauche et a la droite du spectre politique ont tendance a organiser de maniere differente leurs opinions sur le monde.

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