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Political cultures: measuring values heterogeneity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2019

Lisa Blaydes  and
Justin Grimmer
Lisa Blaydes*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Justin Grimmer
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: blaydes@stanford.edu
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Abstract

Using data from the World Values Survey, we analyze the extent to which value consensus exists within countries. To do this, we introduce a statistical model which allows us to generate country-level measures of cultural heterogeneity. Our statistical approach models each country as a mixture of subcultures that are shared across the world. Our results demonstrate that value consensus varies substantially across countries and regions.

Keywords

Comparative politicspolitical behaviorpolitical sociology and culturequantitative methods
Type
Research Notes
Information
Political Science Research and Methods , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 2020 , pp. 571 - 579
Copyright
Copyright © The European Political Science Association 2019

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