Abstract This article examines the role of political ideology as a motivation for general and targeted anti-consumption. Using data from cross-sectional online survey conducted in United Kingdom, we provide unified model ways which economic sociocultural dimensions are associated with anti-consumption manifestations (i.e., suspicion marketing intention to boycott) at individual level. We show t...

Taber and Lodge’s 2006 paper provides powerful evidence that one’s prior beliefs shape one’s reception of new evidence in a manner that can best be described as ‘‘inadvertently dogmatic.’’ This is especially true for people who are well informed, which dovetails with findings going back to Converse (1964) showing political beliefs to be ideologically constrained (rigid) among the relatively wel...

While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality, empirical literature has failed to uncover any such robust relationship. Here we take yet another look at this issue arguing first, that prevailing ideology may be an important determinant of inequality and, second, that the democratization effect “works through” ideology. In societies...

The rough and tumble of John Howard’s public school education left him with an electorally appealing ordinariness in a party renowned for a born to rule attitude. Howard was not brought up with the sense of noblesse oblige of an establishment figure such as Malcolm Fraser. His father owned a small petrol station and John Howard worked there on weekends while at school. Howard’s background may h...

Standard real business cycle theory predicts that consumption should be smoother than output, as observed in developed countries. In emerging economies, however, consumption is more volatile than income. In this paper we provide a novel explanation of this phenomenon, the ‘consumption volatility puzzle’, based on political frictions. We develop a dynamic stochastic political economy model where...

Terror management theory posits that people are motivated to affirm cultural meaning systems, including political ideologies, to avoid the awareness of mortality. Accordingly, studies show that increasing mortality salience (MS) intensifies people’s attitudes toward political issues and figures. However, whereas in some studies MS increases affirmation of preexisting political ideologies, be th...

Political text scaling aims to linearly order parties and politicians across political dimensions (e.g., left-to-right ideology) based on textual content (e.g., politician speeches or party manifestos). Existing models scale texts based on relative word usage and cannot be used for cross-lingual analyses. Additionally, there is little quantitative evidence that the output of these models correl...