Policy Ideology and Local Ideological Representation in Canada

Abstract To enable new research on local ideology and representation in Canada, we construct a latent measure of the policy 37,500 Canadian Election Study respondents using 56 policy-relevant questions then use multilevel regression poststratification to estimate average ideological position each Canada's 338 federal electoral districts 250 largest municipalities. We these estimates examine municipal politics. Combining our with elite survey data from more than 900 politicians, find evidence strong relationship between mass ideology. This is consistent across differing population sizes institutional structures. conclude additional detail publicly available individual aggregate measures describe their potential uses for future politics at all levels.