The structure of mass political belief systems: A network approach to understanding the left-right spectrum.

As a further validation of the left-right self-placement scale we created a sum score for conservativism from the 18 individual policy items (reverse scoring where appropriate so that high scores always indicated right-wing policy preferences); as expected, the correlation with self-placement scale scores was highly significant, r = .504, p < .001.

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