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

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dc.abstract.enLeft-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.
dc.affiliationInstytut Nauk Społecznych
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorWójcik, Adrian Dominik
dc.contributor.authorCisłak-Wójcik, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Peter
dc.date.access2027-06-01
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-03T12:47:02Z
dc.date.available2025-12-03T12:47:02Z
dc.date.created2021-09-24
dc.date.issued2025-10-02
dc.description.accesstimeafter_publication
dc.description.issue4
dc.description.physical1094-1110
dc.description.sdgNoSDGsAreRelevantForThisPublication
dc.description.versionfinal_author
dc.description.volume62
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/03623319.2021.1986320
dc.identifier.issn0362-3319
dc.identifier.issn1873-5355
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/2063
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki o polityce i administracji
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.articleOPEN_REPOSITORY
dc.subject.enpolitical ideology
dc.subject.enpoliticalattitude constraint
dc.subject.enpoliticalpsychology
dc.subject.enleft-right
dc.subject.enpostcommunist countrie
dc.swps.sciencecloudsend
dc.title‘The left is right’: Left and right political orientation across Eastern and Western Europe
dc.title.journalThe Social Science Journal
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle