‘The left is right’: Left and right political orientation across Eastern and Western Europe

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Wójcik, Adrian Dominik
Cisłak-Wójcik, Aleksandra
Schmidt, Peter
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2025-10-02
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The Social Science Journal
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4
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62
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1094-1110
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0362-3319
1873-5355
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Left-right political auto-identification has been used widely in socio-political research to interpret and organize political attitudes and opinions. In this paper we analyse whether the meaning of left-right orientation is the same in Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Using data from two big European survey programmes, European Social Survey and European Values Study, we show that while citizens’ support for economic liberalism is positively related to their left-right political auto-identification, their support for cultural liberalism is negatively related. More importantly, we also present evidence for the regional diversity hypothesis, which shows that this pattern was more prominent among citizens of Western European countries those of Eastern European countries. The results confirm the specificity of Eastern Europe when it comes to relationships between political auto-identification and other beliefs that are traditionally linked, implying that the concept of left-right political auto-identification cannot be transferred mechanically between Eastern Europe and Western Europe.
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political ideology
politicalattitude constraint
politicalpsychology
left-right
postcommunist countrie
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