Ideological Congruence:: Illusion or Imperfection?

• Autores: G. Bingham Powell
• Localización: Legislative studies quarterly, ISSN 0362-9805, Vol. 43, N. 1, 2018, págs. 21-32
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Paul Warwick (2016) argues that much of the research on ideological congruence leaves the erroneous impression that a close match of median left‐right voter opinions and government ideological positions usually emerges from elections. I propose further clarifications. I offer a “natural metric” based on the average distances from the median voter of the most distant and the closest parties competing in all these countries’ elections. I suggest that by these standards average ideological congruence in the Western liberal democracies in the last 20 years has been fairly successful, but not as successful as it could be.