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The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology
This paper explores the structure of elite disagreement about the ideological or nonideological character of municipal politics. I propose two possible relationships between a representative’s own ideology and their beliefs about the character of municipal politics: an “ends-against-the-middle” patt...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9732785/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36510489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10780874211038321 |
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description | This paper explores the structure of elite disagreement about the ideological or nonideological character of municipal politics. I propose two possible relationships between a representative’s own ideology and their beliefs about the character of municipal politics: an “ends-against-the-middle” pattern, in which ideologues on the left and right embrace an ideological vision of municipal politics, whereas moderates insist that municipal politics is not ideological; and an “asymmetric visions” pattern, in which individuals on the left endorse an ideological view of municipal politics and those on the right oppose it. I use new survey data from more than 800 mayors and councillors in Canada to assess these possible relationships. While both are supported by the data, the asymmetric visions pattern is the stronger of the two: the nonideological view of municipal politics is most firmly embraced by municipal politicians of the moderate right, while the ideological vision is most common among representatives on the left. This pattern, I argue, is in keeping with a century of municipal political history and should be incorporated into our theories of municipal elections, representation, and policy disagreement. |
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spelling | pubmed-97327852022-12-10 The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology Lucas, Jack Urban Aff Rev Thousand Oaks Calif Research Notes This paper explores the structure of elite disagreement about the ideological or nonideological character of municipal politics. I propose two possible relationships between a representative’s own ideology and their beliefs about the character of municipal politics: an “ends-against-the-middle” pattern, in which ideologues on the left and right embrace an ideological vision of municipal politics, whereas moderates insist that municipal politics is not ideological; and an “asymmetric visions” pattern, in which individuals on the left endorse an ideological view of municipal politics and those on the right oppose it. I use new survey data from more than 800 mayors and councillors in Canada to assess these possible relationships. While both are supported by the data, the asymmetric visions pattern is the stronger of the two: the nonideological view of municipal politics is most firmly embraced by municipal politicians of the moderate right, while the ideological vision is most common among representatives on the left. This pattern, I argue, is in keeping with a century of municipal political history and should be incorporated into our theories of municipal elections, representation, and policy disagreement. SAGE Publications 2021-08-24 2023-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9732785/ /pubmed/36510489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10780874211038321 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Research Notes Lucas, Jack The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology |
title | The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology |
title_full | The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology |
title_fullStr | The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology |
title_full_unstemmed | The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology |
title_short | The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology |
title_sort | ideological structure of municipal non-ideology |
topic | Research Notes |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9732785/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36510489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10780874211038321 |
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