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Appendix 2 - Content and construction of ideological scales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2009

Christopher J. Kam
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Summary

This appendix describes the how the ideological and party loyalty scales used in Chapters 4–8 were constructed. Tables A2.1–A2.9 list the survey items that are used to create the scales used in this paper, their response categories (e.g., strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree), and the factor solutions that were used to identify the scales.

Data sources

A series of candidate surveys conducted at roughly the same time in each country provided the basic data with which to construct the ideological scales. These surveys were:

  1. Jones, R., I. McAllister, and D. G. Gow. 1996. Australian Candidate Study, 1996 (SSDA Study No. 944). Canberra: Social Science Data Archives, The Australian National University.

  2. Erickson, Lynda. 1993. Canadian Candidate Study, 1993. Burnaby, BC: Simon Fraser University.

  3. Norris, Pippa and Joni Lovenduski. 1992. British Candidate Study, 1992. Available online at: http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris/Data/data.htm.

  4. McAllister, I., Jones, R., D. Denemark, and D. G. Gow. 1994. Australian Candidate Study, 1993 (SSDA Study No. 764). Canberra: Social Science Data Archives, The Australian National University.

  5. Norris, Pippa and Joni Lovenduski. 1997. British Representation Study, 1997. Available online at: http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris/Data/data.htm.

As many of the policy-related questions contained in the 1996 ACS were included in the 1993 ACS, I was able to use the latter surveys to obtain responses for some of the Australian MPs who did not respond to the 1996 ACS.

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