Mar 16th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Rich/Poor Voting Gaps Around the World
Andrew Gelman has read your comments to my post on his chart of rich/poor voting gaps in different countries and done a post further explicating the chart and trying to answer various concerns.
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March 16th, 2009 at 10:33 am
I don’t feel like he really addresses any of the salient points made by commenters – he spends a lot of time talking about how he got the GDP figures, but none addressing the much more salient point that European countries feature more than 2 political parties, which are in turn often broken down along axes other than “liberal/conservative” in the American sense.
Which party in the Netherlands would count as “conservative” on that chart? CDA? Maybe. What about VVD? Possibly, who knows? ChristenUnie? Geert Wilders’ notorious Freedom Party? All of the above?