Leftists Possess More National Consensus in Europe in One of Two Data Sets

A regularity in the U.S. American politics is that liberals have more policy consensus than do conservatives, and both ideological groups moderates. One explanation for this conservatives’ local conformity paradoxically results less at national level. If so, then liberal effect should also be observed other countries. We test using data from Europe. In European Social Survey (country N = 38, participant 376,129), we find on average leftists rightists; however, not Eurobarometer 18, 375,830). sources, observe variation differences between These suggest there a liberal/leftist average, can found Europe United States, but are exceptions.