Understanding the relation between explicitly and implicitly measured political orientation: The moderating role of political sophistication

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 964-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky L. Choma ◽  
Carolyn L. Hafer
Keyword(s):  
Political Orientation ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Implicitly Measured

Living in A Non–Communist versus in A Post–Communist European Country Moderates the Relation between Conservative Values and Political Orientation: A Multilevel Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Barni ◽  
Alessio Vieno ◽  
Michele Roccato
Keyword(s):  
European Social Survey ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Communist Country ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Communist Past ◽  
Conservative Values ◽  
Moderating Role

We performed a multilevel, multinational analysis using the 2012 European Social Survey dataset (N = 41 080, nested in 20 countries) to study how living in a non–communist versus in a post–communist country moderates the link between individual conservative values (drawn on Schwartz's theory of basic human values) and political orientation (assessed as self–placement on the left–right axis and attitude towards economic redistribution). The results supported the moderating role of living in a non–communist versus in a post–communist country in the case both of political self–placement and of attitude towards economic redistribution, even controlling for the countries’ degree of individualism, power distance and democracy. Specifically, conservative values were positively related to a rightist political self–placement among participants living in countries without a communist past, and to a favourable attitude towards economic redistribution in countries with a communist past. The limitations, implications and future directions of this study are discussed. Copyright © 2016 European Association of Personality Psychology

Multiple and Counterstereotypic Categorization of Immigrants: The Moderating Role of Political Orientation on Interventions to Reduce Prejudice

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Prati ◽  
Silvia Moscatelli ◽  
Felicia Pratto ◽  
Monica Rubini
Keyword(s):  
Political Orientation ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals Ideologically consistent, but for whom? An empirical assessment of the populism-elitism-pluralism set of attitudes and the moderating role of political sophistication

Politics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 026339572110177
Author(s):  
Bram Spruyt ◽  
Matthijs Rooduijn ◽  
Andrej Zaslove
Keyword(s):  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Empirical Assessment ◽  
Consistent Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Scholars who study populism from an ‘ideational approach’ consider populism as a set of ideas based on a moralised anti-establishment thinking and a strong people-centrist view of politics. From this perspective, at a theoretical level, populist attitudes have the following two main contrasts: pluralism and elitism. In this article, we investigate the ideological consistency of the populism-pluralism-elitism set of attitudes among voters. Analysing data from Flanders (N = 1444), we make three main contributions. First, we show that there indeed exists an internally consistent relationship between populism, elitism, and pluralism among voters. Second, we demonstrate that this consistency only holds for the most politically sophisticated citizens. And third, we show that the relationship between populist and elitist attitudes is much more nuanced than often assumed. We show that it is possible to empirically distinguish between ‘expertise elitism’ and ‘anti-populist elitism’, two forms of elitism which relate differently to populist attitudes.

How Cross-Cutting News Exposure Relates to Candidate Issue Stance Knowledge, Political Polarization, and Participation: The Moderating Role of Political Sophistication

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 626-648
Author(s):  
Yonghwan Kim
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
The One ◽  
Issue Knowledge ◽  
Moderating Role

AbstractThis article seeks to improve our understanding of the role of cross-cutting news exposure in a democratic process—that is, whether and how exposure to counter-attitudinal news information is associated with citizens’ political issue knowledge, attitudinal polarization, and engagement in political activities. The results provide 2 contrasting roles of exposure to dissonant media outlets. On the one hand, results offer some evidence that dissonant media use contributes to gaining issue knowledge and inspiring citizen participation. On the other hand, some findings suggest that it reinforces, rather than attenuates, citizens’ attitudinal polarization. Thus, the findings from this study indicate mixed effects of exposure to counter-attitudinal news information.

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