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  • The political opinions and preferences of individual citizens are of immense importance to any theory of democratic government. This dissertation is a comparative study of how and to what extent the political opinions of people all around the world conform to consistent, ideological systems of beliefs; and the consequences of variation in mass ideology for the quality of democratic governance. The research is based upon survey data collected as part of a series of cross-national public opinion polls by a variety of academic and research organizations. To begin, I devise a new measure of ideological "constraint" that is appropriate and reliable for cross-national research, and arises from a conceptualization of constraint as a form of ideological "clustering" that can be assessed with a latent class model density estimator, and quantified using a measure of relative entropy. Applying this measure, I find that, contrary to most expectations, countries with lower levels of mass constraint do not suffer from worse quality of governance. Instead, lower levels of belief system constraint appear to be associated with better governance outcomes. I further demonstrate that the left-right ideological spectrum, in particular, is not a universal source of belief system constraint. As relevant as the left-right spectrum may be to party politics in most advanced democracies, it is only people in the United States, and, to a lesser extent, Great Britain and a small number of former Eastern Bloc countries who hold, even minimally, political beliefs that conform to the ideological "left" and "right" as commonly understood. The implications of each of these findings for our understanding of the proper role of citizens in a democracy are developed and discussed. (xsd:string)
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