Our 2011 model looked at only two demographic factors specific to each state: how many voters in those states were regular churchgoers, and how the voters rated themselves on an overall conservative-liberal scale.
In general, those politicians who rate as insurgents or outsiders are on the wings of the liberal-conservative scale.
The Liberal Democrats scaled back their ambitions over the "mansion tax" as they detailed plans to clear the national deficit within three years.
Next, I included each senator's ideological rating on a one-dimensional liberal-conservative scale, as measured by the DW-Nominate system.
The outcome of this exercise is illustrated in Fig. 1 where for each TV channel we plot the estimated marginal effect on the propensity to support the Senate plan against its overall ideological position on a liberal-conservative scale.
The strength of the link between genetics and the liberal-conservative scale suggests that something more fundamental is being influenced by the genes, something that in turn influences political beliefs.
Eventually people will settle on a position on the liberal-conservative scale as they collect more information.
They might also decide that the difficulty of placing him on the liberal-conservative scale makes it impossible to draw any lessons about the importance of centrism.
When the researchers looked at the self-reported political attitudes of the research participants -- on a liberal-conservative scale -- they found a correlation between negative attitudes toward those groups and conservative political views.
The original article claimed that conservatives rated more highly than liberals on a scale of psychoticism, while liberals rated more highly on a scale of neuroticism.
