Download full text
(634.5Kb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-74411-7
Exports for your reference manager
Measuring the mass-elite preference congruence: findings from a meta-analysis and introduction to the symposium
[journal article]
Abstract
The extensive scholarship devoted to the congruence of mass-elite policy preferences lacks consensus about the meaning, comparison, and measurement across political settings. This makes comparisons difficult and raises obstacles to advancing the debates. This symposium aims to identify the diversity... view more
The extensive scholarship devoted to the congruence of mass-elite policy preferences lacks consensus about the meaning, comparison, and measurement across political settings. This makes comparisons difficult and raises obstacles to advancing the debates. This symposium aims to identify the diversity of methodological choices and to reflect systematically on several key choices of particular importance in understanding the congruence. The contributions to the symposium compare and contrast how several types of measurement fare in diverse political contexts in Eastern Europe, Latin America, North Africa, and East Asia, and what we can learn from those methodological choices.... view less
Keywords
Europe; Eastern Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North Africa; Asia; Far East; society; political culture; opinion formation; theory; methodology; mass; elite; political opinion; attitude; opinion; measurement
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 509-527
Journal
European Political Science, 19 (2020)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-020-00273-y
ISSN
1682-0983
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed