A Unified Theory of Value-Based Reasoning and U.S. Public Opinion

Goren, Paul; Schoen, Harald; Reifler, Jason; Scotto, Thomas J.; Chittick, William O.

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“…This pattern was fairly consistent across countries where left/right ideological self‐placement proved to make sense . Similar results were reported by Goren et al () with respect to a large sample of U.S. participants. The authors found that self‐transcendence values (acceptance of and concern for other people) and conservation values (resistance to social change and social stability) affect liberal‐conservative ideological self‐placement, as well as citizens' opinions on major policy domains, related to economic, racial, cultural, and foreign policy issues.…”

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“…In contrast, one can't doubt the prominent role of values in dictating citizens' political preferences in the United States like in Europe, despite the divergent trajectories of ideological polarization. In this regard, the relevance of values in dictating citizens' political preferences was largely corroborated across two‐party and multiparty systems (Goren et al, ).…”

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On the Left and Right Ideological Divide: Historical Accounts and Contemporary Perspectives

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Vecchione

2018

Political Psychology

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Left and right are viewed as social constructs that serve to orient and to bind people to political choices over the last two centuries mostly within established Western liberal democracies. Their contents and functions, however, have not been invariant across polities but were largely shaped in accordance with the distinctive characteristics of societies and of political systems in which they operated. Thus, one can't avoid addressing left and right under an historical perspective to make sense of their different expressions and to better appreciate their functions. Recent findings have shown that individual differences in personality traits, basic values, and core political values account for a significant portion of preference for left and right across several polities. It has been argued that affinities between individual differences in personality and political preferences have developed over time under conditions of choice in which people's dispositions and value priorities could meet contingent political offers. Time and opportunities of free choice made possible the establishment of distinctive ideological identities that ultimately find their roots in people's personalities. Novel findings document the function that left and right still can play in predicting political preference and in summarizing political attitudes as stable social postures that account for the encounter of personality and politics.KEY WORDS: personality, left-right ideology, democracy, historical accountsThe decline of sociostructural factors as shapers of political preferences and the emergence of person-centered issues has been a striking change for contemporary democracies. Traditional social cleavages like religion, class, occupation, income, and education account for political orientation less than in the past (e.g., Dalton & Wattenberg, 2000;Jansen, De Graaf, & Need, 2011;Van der Brug, 2010), in concomitance with the secularization of societies and with the access of most of citizens to decent conditions of life.Likely this does not occur to the same degree across political contexts where the functioning of democratic institution results from different vicissitudes and current contingencies. Neither should we overlook the severe tolls that poverty, racial divisions, and social exclusion may impose over the full realization of democracy, even in the wealthiest countries (Manza & Brooks, 1999;McCarty, Poole, & Rosenthal, 2006 Yet a major concern with respect to individuals' rights and the full expression of their personalities appears to be a unique feature of the political offer that appeals to citizens' preferences, the more they attain the freedom to voice their needs and aspirations (Inglehart & Welzel, 2005).The traditional compasses of political navigation, like party identifications and political ideologies, appear less constraining than in the past, particularly in multiparty democracies where political parties change names and constituencies, form coalitions, and endorse political programs that are barely distinctive, w...

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On the Left and Right Ideological Divide: Historical Accounts and Contemporary Perspectives

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2018

Political Psychology

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“…8 These ca tegories are abstract and fundamental, and serve as guiding principles in individuals' lives, from decision-making to attitudinal responses (Goren et al 2016;Chrona & Capelos 2016). 9 A number of studies focus also on political values reflecting normative beliefs or ideals about political matters that serve to consolidate attitudes and determine behaviour in the political sphere.…”

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Back to Black: Values, Ideology and the Black Box of Political Radicalization

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Demertzis

2017

SAS

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This article focuses on the psychological drivers of anomic and violent behaviors described as 'new radicalisms' in the context of the Eurozone economic crisis. The authors make a conceptual and empirical distinction between the desire for change forward against the old (defined as radicalism) and the desire for change backward against the new (defined as reactionism). Using 2015 data from Greece, multinomial logit models test the role of core values that map on the desire for change against the new and the desire for change against the old as predictors of dormant and actualized anomic and violent behaviors. The findings support that desire for conservation triggered reactionist political engagement in Greece that spans across the left/right ideology spectrum.

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“…Previous research suggests that existing work on values (e.g., Goren ; Goren et al. ) does not fully cover the concept of morality. According to Graham et al.…”

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“…One might ask what the difference is between morality and values. Previous research suggests that existing work on values (e.g.,Goren 2005;Goren et al 2016) does not fully cover the concept of morality. According toGraham et al (2011, 368), "reciprocity, loyalty to one's team or tribe, and concerns about bodily and spiritual purity are ubiquitous in anthropological accounts of morality, yet they do not appear among Schwartz's 10 values."…”

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The Mobilizing Effect of Parties' Moral Rhetoric

Jung

2019

American J Political Sci

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How does parties' use of moral rhetoric affect voter behavior? Prior comparative party research has studied party positions without much attention to how parties explain and justify their positions. Drawing insights from political and moral psychology, I argue that moral rhetoric mobilizes copartisan voters by activating positive emotions about their partisan preference. I expect this to hold among copartisans who are exposed to party rhetoric. To test my argument, I measure moral rhetoric by text‐analyzing party manifestos from six English‐speaking democracies and measure mobilization using copartisan turnout in survey data. The results support my argument. Furthermore, I find evidence in support of the theoretical mechanism using survey experiments and panel survey data from Britain. The article shows that moral rhetoric is a party campaign frame that has important consequences for voter behavior.

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A Unified Theory of Value-Based Reasoning and U.S. Public Opinion

Cited by 44 publications

References 34 publications

On the Left and Right Ideological Divide: Historical Accounts and Contemporary Perspectives

On the Left and Right Ideological Divide: Historical Accounts and Contemporary Perspectives

Back to Black: Values, Ideology and the Black Box of Political Radicalization

The Mobilizing Effect of Parties' Moral Rhetoric

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