Ιδεολογικές αξίες, πολιτικές στάσεις και ηγεμονία : οι «ισχυρές μεταβλητές» της πολιτικής και εκλογικής συμπεριφοράς στη συγκυρία των βουλευτικών εκλογών του 2007

Abstract

The article examines the ideological and political composition of the Greek electorate in the 2007 elections. The form and the way this political composition is depicted by political surveys can shed light on some critical questions concerning the modern Greek political parties, such as the degree of internal ideological and political coherence and the dominant ideological frameworks. Using a series of political and ideological attitudes that appear as variables in political surveys, the article examines whether systematic ideological and political positions do exist and if so, how they are connected with the final political choice and with symbolic references on the Left-Right scale. The core argument of the article is that political and ideological scales used in the quantitative opinion surveys, such as «economic liberalization» or «authoritarian-liberalization», are largely useful not only for the prediction of political tendencies and final choices but also for the better understanding of the classic Left-Right scale.