[Add] Political Orientation

[JamesPHoughton]

Wisneski, Daniel C., Brittany E. Hanson, and G. Scott Morgan. 2020. “The Roles of Disgust and Harm Perception in Political Attitude Moralization.” Politics and the Life Sciences: The Journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 39 (2): 215–27.

Political orientation. Participants reported their political orientation by first responding to the item “ Generally speaking, do you usually think of yourself as a liberal, conservative, moderate, or something else?” The response options were liberal, conservative, moder-ate, uncertain/don’t know, and other. Participants who responded they were either liberal or conservative were asked to report the degree to which they “ consider yourself a Liberal/Conservative?,” with the options slightly, moderately, and strongly. All other participants responded to the item “ If you had to choose, would you say that you lean more toward considering yourself liberal, conservative, or neither” with the options liberal, neither, or conservative. Participants’ responses were used to generate a single 7-point political orientation scale that ranged from strongly liberal to strongly conservative with a midpoint of neither. Participants who reported that they “ lean” liberal or conservative in the follow-up question were recoded into the “ slightly lib-eral/conservative” group.

Ryan, Timothy J. 2014. “Reconsidering Moral Issues in Politics.” The Journal of Politics 76 (2): 380–97.

We hear a lot of talk these days about liberals and conservatives. Here is a seven-
point scale on which the political views that people might hold are arranged from
extremely liberal to extremely conservative. Where would you place yourself on this scale, or haven't you thought much about this?
Extremely liberal
Liberal
Slightly liberal
Moderate/middle of the road
Slightly conservative
Conservative
Extremely conservative
I haven’t thought much about this

Gastil, John, Laura Black, and Kara Moscovitz. 2008. “Ideology, Attitude Change, and Deliberation in Small Face-to-Face Groups.” Political Communication 25 (1): 23–46.

Ideology. A standard single-item measure was employed to operationalize participants’ political ideology. The item read, “On a scale of political ideology, individuals can be arranged from strongly liberal to strongly conservative. Which of the following categories best describes your views?” The seven possible response options were strongly liberal, liberal, slightly liberal, middle of the road, slightly conservative, conservative, and strongly conservative.

Survey Title

"Super Special Survey" <- note, this is just a placeholder name - replace it with the name of the actual survey.

Survey Source

Survey Overview

Aggregation/scoring function

Tasks

• Create a new folder in surveys w/ descriptive, easy-to-read name superSpecialSurvey/
• Create SurveyJS .json file (e.g. superSpecialSurvey/superSpecialSurvey.json)
  • Change the default completion page to a blank page ("showCompletedPage": false)
• Create a .bib file citing your references for the survey (always: superSpecialSurvey/references.bib)
• Create file with function to aggregate survey data (e.g. superSpecialSurvey.score.js)
• Create a cypress test of the survey (e.g. superSpecialSurvey.cy.jsx)
  • Include a line to take a screenshot at the end of every page
• Create a readme markdown file to document (always: superSpecialSurvey/README.md)
  • Include relevant screenshots
• Update the package minor version
• Rebuild the package using npm run build to update SHAs
• Create PR and link to this issue