TRADICIONALNE IDEOLOŠKE KATEGORIJE MEĐU GLASAČIMA DONALDA TRAMPA
TRADITIONAL IDEOLOGICAL CATEGORIES DOMINATE AMONG DONALD TRUMP VOTERS

Author(s): Željka Buturović, Emilija Mijić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Political Theory, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Donald Trump; Hilary Clinton; ideology; American politics; 2016 US presidential election; populism
Summary/Abstract: Donald Trump’s unexpected ascension to the presidency has put into question several established ways of thinking about American politics.It has been suggested that traditional left-right continuum should be supplemented by nationalism/globalism dichotomy; that populism presents a useful dimension orthogonal to existing ideologies and that Trump has unique appeal to voters holding views which are a combination of the extreme points on the left and right side of the traditional ideological continuum. As a part of a larger study of political attitudes and ideology, we measured respondent’s ideology by using three different questions: a categorical ideological self-positioning, a choice of their position on political issues as mostly left, mostly right, mostly middle, and mostly a combination of left and right; and whether they saw themselves predominantly as nationalists or globalists. The questionnaire was administered online to a random sample of 1514 adults who were drawn from a large panel of email addresses. The survey results were rim-weighted to match marginal distributions for region, age, gender, education, race, party and income. The results show that the vast majority of Trump voters prefer to self identify along traditional ideological continuum. In addition, logistical analysis shows that nationalis/globalism is the strongest predictor of Trump vote, albeit one that improves only slightly upon usual ideological categories. Trump’s victory is due to traditional ideological partisans and but also to a small but critical number of non-traditional voters. A number of American voters who self-identify as populists remains negligible.

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