TY - JOUR TI - Surveying ideology in mass populations: a new conceptual method AU - Buckle, Tobias T2 - Journal of Political Ideologies AB - This paper develops a new method of examining ideology in mass populations. It presents results from an in-depth survey of 252 people examining their ideology, which is understood, following the account developed by Michael Freeden, as an interlinked series of conceptions of essentially contestable concepts. In contrast to the traditional left–right spectrum, measures of the presence of five ideological families in respondents thought behaviour (liberalism, socialism, republicanism, conservatism and libertarianism) were created. This was done by examining the degree to which they agreed with alternate conceptions of political concepts such as freedom, fairness and justice. This paper provides a short introduction, a theoretical framework, and presents the model used. Finally, it considers how the internal parts of the ideologies studied link to each other and to concrete policy preferences in aggregate data. DA - 2013/// PY - 2013 DO - 10.1080/13569317.2013.784014 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 18 IS - 2 SP - 219 EP - 242 SN - 1356-9317 ST - Surveying ideology in mass populations UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13569317.2013.784014 Y2 - 2013/06/09/20:07:19 ER -