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IDEOLOGY AND POLICY PREFERENCES ON LOCAL ISSUES: AN INTENSIVE ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Carlson James M.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.1996.tb00104.x
Subject(s) - ideology , politics , local government , political science , sample (material) , public administration , law , chemistry , chromatography
This article examines ideological thinking about local political issues. An intensive analysis, using Q‐technique, of how a small sample of citizens and government officials evaluated thirty‐six local issues revealed four different perspectives on local politics. No single liberal‐conservative bipolar continuum along which local issues could be arrayed emerged from the analysis. Instead subjects revealed points of views on local issues that seemed to mix conventional ideological perspectives.