%0 Journal Article
%T The Structure of Municipal Political Ideology
%A Damon M. Cann
%J State and Local Government Review
%@ 1943-3409
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0160323X18781456
%X Conventional wisdom holds that municipal politics is nonideological. Recent scholarship challenges this perspective, finding representation on a liberal¨Cconservative dimension in municipal politics. This article re-evaluates these findings using a set of questions that includes questions on land use. Evidence is shown for a multidimensional municipal ideological space with a liberal¨Cconservative dimension and another dimension that corresponds to citizens¡¯ preferences for balancing community needs with individual rights on land use. The results support a characterization of municipal politics as being ideological but also show that a single liberal¨Cconservative dimension is inadequate for characterizing the municipal ideological space
%K ideology
%K municipal politics
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0160323X18781456