Political Preferences Each preference a person or a political party holds is often related to another preference in a clear fashion. For example, if you have a preference for increased gender equality you are likely to also have a preference for increased minority rights. It is precisely because of this close relationship between different preferences that people like Dalton argue we can group them together and summarize them in a single dimension, such as the left–right. In contrast, Benoit and Laver were cautious of oversimplifying too much as people understand the left–right dimension to mean very different things in different contexts. Most mode political scientists think in terms of two distinct dimensions that are not necessarily related to each other. The first dimension we can think of as an economic left–right dimension. This dimension is conceed with how far the state or the political majority should intervene in the economic freedoms of its citizens. It is comprised of issues such as attitudes towards the welfare state, taxation and market regulation, where the left believes the majority should intervene while the right believes that the majority should not be able t

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