Building the RePass PTR Measure of Ideology

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Label

Building the RePass PTR Measure of Ideology

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• RePass, David

Author

• RePass, David

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• beliefs
• conservatism
• elections
• liberalism
• party identification
• Conservative Party
• political parties
• political systems
• voters
• voting attitudes
• voting behavior
• political ideologies
• Democratic Party (USA)
• Liberal Party
• Republican Party (USA)

Summary

In the article "Searching for Voters along the Liberal-Conservative Continuum: The Infrequent Ideologue and the Missing Middle," the author presents a measure which can ascertain the ideological orientation of American voters. The measure identifies which voters are liberals, which are conservatives, and which are middle-of-the-roaders. The measure combines responses to four variables that can be found in most American National Elections Study (ANES) datasets since 1972. This archived document is a write-up of the exact method used to build the measure. The instructions also include the SPSS syntax used