Language Structure and Political Ideology: Evidence From the World Value Survey.

This paper studies the relationship between language structure and political ideology. Using several language structure data sets and the World Value Survey data, we test the relationship between linguistic characteristics and political ideologies on democracy for over 150,000 people in countries ac...

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Publicado en:Kyklos Vol. 78; no. 4; pp. 1514 - 1530
Autores principales: Zhou, Yang, Matti, Josh, Dutta, Nabamita
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2025
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          Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton Texas,, USA
          Euromed Business School, Euromed University of Fes, Fes, Morocco
          Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, La Crosse Wisconsin,, USA
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        Democracy
        Cultural values
        Social norms
        Socioeconomic status
        Linguistic politeness
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      ab: This paper studies the relationship between language structure and political ideology. Using several language structure data sets and the World Value Survey data, we test the relationship between linguistic characteristics and political ideologies on democracy for over 150,000 people in countries across the world during the past approximately two decades. We explore the impact of pronoun drop, politeness distinction, and irrealis mood on people's political ideology. In addition to considering the links between these language structures and support for democracy, we also examine how language structures influence what aspects of democracy people care about. Additionally, we also test for heterogeneity by income level and degree of democracy across countries. In considering culture, we conduct mediation analysis with the traits of individualism, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance. Overall, these further tests, along with the robustness tests, support the main results by highlighting the connections between language structures and political ideology.
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