Public opinion surveys: a new scale

Guillem Rico; Eva Anduiza; Bruno Castanho Silva; Ioannis Andreadis; Nebojša Blanuša; Yazmin Morlet Corti; Gisela Delfino; Saskia P. Ruth-Lovell; Bram Spruyt; Marco Steenbergen; Levente Littvay

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Public opinion surveys: a new scale

Guillem Rico, Eva Anduiza, Bruno Castanho Silva, Ioannis Andreadis, Nebojša Blanuša, Yazmin Morlet Corti, Gisela Delfino, Saskia P. Ruth-Lovell, Bram Spruyt, Marco Steenbergen, Levente Littvay

Department of Political Science and Public Law

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Abstract

In recent years, scholars have started to measure and explain populism at the micro-level, as an attitude that individuals hold about politics. Multiple scales have been proposed but, as the overview by Van Hauwaert et al. indicates, they all have limitations. Most do not capture a broad range of the phenomenon – being able to discriminate only among moderately populist and moderately not-populist individuals – and have little cross-cultural validity. Starting out with 145 items, we have used standard scale-development approaches from psychology to produce a short battery of six to nine indicators measuring populist attitudes, divided into three dimensions. The scale has conceptual breadth, and travels well across 18 samples collected in 14 different countries from Europe and the Americas.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Ideational Approach to Populism
Subtitle of host publication	Concept, Theory, and Analysis
Publisher	Taylor and Francis AS
Pages	150-178
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351768511, 9781315196923
ISBN (Print)	9781138716513
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315196923-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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