Thinking Ideologically: The Limited Role of Left and Right Labels as Policy Shortcuts.

How do voters use left-right ideological labels as shortcuts for policy positions in evaluating electoral candidates? We offer a distinction between maximal and minimal forms of ideological thinking. While maximal thinking implies that voters rely on ideological proximity as a proxy for policy congr...

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Published in:	Public Opinion Quarterly Vol. 90; no. 3; pp. 730 - 758
Main Authors:	Lachance, Sarah, Treger, Clareta
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Fall2026
Subjects:	Canada Right & left (Political science) Partisanship Voting research Political systems Decision making in political science
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost