The Strength of Issues: Using Multiple Measures to Gauge Preference Stability, Ideological Constraint, and Issue Voting

By Stephen Ansolabehere, Jonathan Rodden, J. Snyder. American Political Science Review, 2008

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Does Counter-Attitudinal Information Cause Backlash? Results from Three Large Survey Experiments (2018, methodology): “We combine all four dependent variables into a composite index using factor analysis in order to improve power (Ansolabehere et al. 2008).”
Beyond Binary Labels: Political Ideology Prediction of Twitter Users (2017, result): “With respect to political conclusions, researchers commonly conceptualize ideology as a single, left-right dimension similar to what we observe in the U.S. Congress (Ansolabehere et al., 2008; Bafumi and Herron, 2010).”
Understanding the Determinants of Political Ideology: Implications of Structural Complexity (2014, neutral): “…Abrams, & Pope, 2005; Layman, 2001), and the recognition that citizens may possess more attitude structure than previously supposed (Achen, 1975; Ansolabehere, Rodden, & Snyder, 2008; Feldman, 1988; Goren, 2001, 2004; Pefﬂey & Hurwitz, 1985), scholars have returned to the task of elucidating…”
Belief Network Analysis: A Relational Approach to Understanding the Structure of Attitudes (2017, methodology): “Scale construction can be used to remove the variance that stems from the response error associated with individual items (Ansolabehere, Rodden, and Snyder 2008).”
Spatial Voting in the 2004 Presidential Election (2009, background): “Although this evidence is not completely conclusive, it differs from the finding of Ansolabehere, Rodden, and Snyder (2008) that information has no meaningful effect on the role of policy views in voting behavior.”
The Dynamics of State Policy Liberalism, 1936–2014 (2016, background): “Thus, dimension reduction must occur at some point, whether at the measurement stage or later in the analysis. tors for a latent trait usually reduces measurement error on the construct of interest, often substantially (Ho↵erbert 1966; Ansolabehere, Rodden, and Snyder 2008).”
Learning More from Political Communication Experiments: Pretreatment and Its Effects (2012, methodology): “Our use of a median split follows many others who employ analogous measures (e.g., Ansolabehere, Rodden, and Snyder 2008, 224–25; Druckman and Nelson 2003; McGraw and Dolan 2007, 311–12; Miller and Krosnick 2000, 305). a significant increase in support (t224 = 4.47; p ≤ .01), the Con frame caused a…”
Do voters follow the recommendations of voter advice application websites? A study of the effects of kieskompas.nl on its users’ vote choices in the 2010 Dutch legislative elections (2014, background): “…and voting behaviour research going back to the work of Berelson et al. (1954) has argued that political campaigns typically serve to reinforce voter’s partisan predispositions, rather than ‘persuading’ large swathes of voters to change their opinions (Ansolabehere et al., 2008; Campbell, 1960).”
Linking Genetics and Political Attitudes: Reconceptualizing Political Ideology (2011, result): “…are combined into a unidimensional construct even though some previous research indicates that issue attitudes are multidimensional, with “social” and “economic” issue axes being the most common subindexes suggested (Ansolabehere et al., 2008; Asher, 1980; Carsay & Layman, 2002; Weisberg, 1980).”