Left/Right Ideology and Canadian Politics

@article{Cochrane2010LeftRightIA,
  title={Left/Right Ideology and Canadian Politics},
  author={Christopher Cochrane},
  journal={Canadian Journal of Political Science},
  year={2010},
  volume={43},
  pages={583 - 605},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154420921}
}
Abstract. This article examines the influence of ideology in Canadian politics. The core theory is that political opinions are bound together into ideological clusters by underlying influences that… 
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