Beyond the left-right cleavage: Exploring American political choice space Academic Article

abstract

• Following spatial choice theory and MAP methodology, we employ the data drawn from recent nationwide public opinion surveys to probe the latent political choice space in American political competition. Our analyses demonstrate that, in addition to the traditional leftright ideology continuum, there is a second distinct dimension in American political choice space. More importantly, the results from our regression analyses suggest that the second dimension seems to be driven by a cleavage among different reform prospects, ranging from low-politics reformism, to politics-as-usual approach, to high-politics style of change.

authors

• Liu, Xinsheng
• Vedlitz, Arnold

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL POLITICS

altmetric score

• 2.1

author list (cited authors)

• Hinich, M., Liu, X., Vedlitz, A., & Lindsey, C.

citation count

• 9

complete list of authors

• Hinich, Melvin||Liu, Xinsheng||Vedlitz, Arnold||Lindsey, Charles

publication date

• January 2013

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Theoretical Politics  Journal

keywords

• American Politics
• Election
• Reform
• Spatial Choice
• Voting

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0951629812453215

start page

• 75

end page

• 104

volume

• 25

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0951629812453215