ideology

is that which organizes a peoples values and beliefs and leads to political behavior, thus helping to explain why people do what they do.

In this article, I adopt Tedin's (1987) relatively modest definition of political ideology as an interrelated set of moral and political attitudes that possesses cognitive, affective, and motivational components. That is, ideology helps to explain why people do what they do... it organizes their values and beliefs and leads to political behavior. This definition, although broad, has the advantage of paralleling ordinary and professional usage in both psychology (jost) .

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