In our study evenness measures the ideological diversity of opinions as the system evolves.
In 2010, Walmart commissioned a new series of surveys to measure the ideological and electoral preferences of the Walmart Mom, now redefined to represent a more commercially and politically prized demographic.
Congress passes one-third the number of laws it did in the 20th century and is nearly twice as partisan, as measured by the ideological slant of each member's voting record (data compiled from Norm Ornstein's Vital Statistics at the Brookings Institute).
It is one measure of the ideological upheaval in Russian politics that he argues that the Communist Party is now the party of business.
The objection should not be to how it is measured but to the ideological concept itself.
It is composed of career number-crunchers of no known ideological bent who try to measure the trade-offs inherent in regulatory action.
It has no borders at which to be checked; its success or failure is measured in ideological rather than territorial terms — like Communism without Russia.
But they do serve as a measure of dissatisfaction across the ideological spectrum".
This measure is in practice the ideological cover for requiring EU governments to implement the bad economics of continuously seeking a zero fiscal balance ("balanced budgets").
We directly measured ideological homophily in friend networks, and examine the extent to which heterogeneous friends could potentially expose individuals to cross-cutting content.
