Rethinking Conservatism in Comparative Perspective

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Brief Overview

Drawing on long-forgotten theories of ideology, we use data from the U.S., Argentina, and Spain to show that considering the concept in more dispositional, worldview-based terms maps well onto political beliefs across country contexts.

Authors

• Marc Hetherington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Andrew Engelhardt, Stony Brook University

• Matias Catriel Tarillo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Martín Martin Opertti, Duke University