Left and Right in Global Politics
realists recognize that ideas and internal politics matter. Their claim is simply that they are not the main explanatory factor ...
of the years to come will not be over ideology or economic interests, but rather over cultural differences, between the West and ...
expense of established political institutions and practices. The process, however, is also deeply political. For one thing, glob ...
2 A worldwide value divide How widespread really is the language of left and right? One could recognize the clash about equality ...
A universal divide The left–right value divide is rarely, in itself, an object of inquiry. At the same time, it is so central to ...
however, suggests a different reading. Even though the scale goes from 1 to 10 and has a middle point at 5.5, it is most likely ...
In Vietnam, a country where the 2001 World Values Survey was one of the first scientific public opinion surveys ever conducted, ...
Table 2.1.Country means, mean deviations, and percentages of don’t know/no answer, left–right self-placement, 1999–2001 Country ...
Table 2.1.(cont.) Country Mean Mean deviation Don’t Know/ No answer (%) Azerbaijan 5.54 1.84 32.8 Canada 5.55 1.39 13.8 Norway 5 ...
There is significant variation in these percentages and, in some cases, relatively high levels of non-response. One should keep ...
such formal concepts for the intellectual clarification of party com- petition if opinion surveys revealed even a modest tendenc ...
Iran, France, the Russian Federation, and Slovenia have means below 5, and at the other, Algeria, El Salvador, Venezuela, the Ph ...
RIGHT UNITED KINGDOM (^36) 1.1 1.4 7.3 13.8 44.5 8.2 11.3 3.4 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 12345678910 LEFT % of population Se ...
is the striking case of Israel, another country with a proportional representation system and one of the highest mean deviations ...
left–right self-placement. A positive sign indicates that the two scales increase together, a negative sign that they progress i ...
and also one where taxes are low and individuals take responsibility for themselves. A person on the right is also less inclined ...
the latter more pessimistic about humanity but more satisfied with the status quo. Table2.4 presents results in line with these ...
to probe this matter in detail. Everything else being equal, however, attitudes toward life correspond very well to the expectat ...
the reverse may be true, younger generations being disaffected with a culture and values associated with the fallen communist re ...
0.66 (2/3), and those where all answers yielded results that were either non-significant or in the wrong direction received a 0 ...
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