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	Political Sophistication Measurement	政治的イデオロギー尺度
分野	政治心理学	政治心理学
系統	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
提唱年	1987	1990
提唱者	Robert C. Luskin & John Zaller	Hans-Dieter Klingemann & Norberto Bobbio
種類	Composite cognitive index	Self-report
原典	Zaller, J. R. (1992). The nature and origins of mass opinion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521407861	Fuchs, D., & Klingemann, H. D. (1990). The left-right schema. In M. Kent Jennings & Jan W. Van Deth (Eds.), Continuities in political action. Berlin: De Gruyter.
別名	Political Awareness Index, Political Expertise Measure, Cognitive Sophistication Index	Left-Right Scale, Ideology Continuum, Political Spectrum Scale
関連	4	3
概要	Political sophistication measurement assesses the size, range, and organization of an individual's political belief system, the degree to which a person's political cognitions are numerous, wide-ranging, and well integrated. Luskin (1987) developed rigorous operationalizations, and Zaller (1992) showed that political awareness, his preferred sophistication indicator, governs how citizens receive and accept political messages.	The Political Ideology Scale measures individual self-placement on a left-right political spectrum, capturing fundamental preferences for government role, economic organization, and social values. The single-item self-placement measure (most common) asks respondents to rate themselves on a 0-10 or 0-100 continuum; multi-item versions assess distinct ideological dimensions (economic policy, social policy, nationalism). The left-right axis remains the dominant organizing principle of political competition globally, predicting party choice, policy preferences, and electoral behavior despite critiques that it oversimplifies multidimensional political space.