Cognitive Style and Political Belief Systems in the British House of Commons

2004 ◽  
pp. 230-239
Author(s):  
Philip E. Tetlock
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
House Of Commons

Measurements of Backbench Attitudes by Guttman Scaling of Early Day Motions: A Pilot Study, Labour, 1968–69

1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Leece ◽  
Hugh Berrington
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Guttman Scaling ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

This research is addressed to the problem of constructing scales of political attitudes within the British House of Commons. Our aim, broadly, is to produce measures that will enable us to distinguish between backbenchers of the same party – for example, a Right-Left scale applied to the Labour party – and to relate these data to biographical variables and other measures of political behaviour. Moreover, by observing the relationship between Members' positions on different scales, and changes over time, we hope to learn more about the belief-systems of Members of Parliament.

Measuring Politicians' Values: Administration and Assessment of a Ranking Technique in the British House of Commons

1978 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald D. Searing
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Policy Problems ◽  
Ranking Technique

Despite their prominence in political affairs, values have rarely been studied through survey research. This article offers groundwork for quantitative investigations of politicians' values by describing the development, administration and assessment of a ranking technique in the British House of Commons. It uses tape-recorded interviews which suggest that values are intelligible components of politicians' belief systems and help identify difficulties in conceptualizing and measuring them. The ranking instrument employed to measure values demonstrates its adequacy by reproducing familiar cleavages between political camps, distinguishing ideological party factions and generating data related to themes MPs put forward when discussing institutions and policy problems.

Teasing out cognitive development from cognitive style: A training study.

1985 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 682-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamar Globerson ◽  
Eliya Weinstein ◽  
Ruth Sharabany
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Training Study

New Directions for Research on Cognitive Style?

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 502-502
Author(s):  
Nora Newcombe
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Style ◽  
New Directions

Review of Cognitive Style in Early Education.

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 610-610
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Early Education
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