Replication Data for: Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test

The right-left dimension is ubiquitous in politics, but prior perspectives provide conflicting accounts of whether cultural and economic attitudes are typically aligned on this dimension within mass publics around the world. Using survey data from 99 nations, we find not only that right-left attitude organization is uncommon, but that it is more common for culturally and economically right wing-attitudes to correlate negatively with each other, an attitude structure reflecting a contrast between desires for cultural and economic protection vs. freedom. We examine where, among whom, and why protection-freedom attitude organization outweighs right-left attitude organization, and discuss implications for the psychological bases of ideology, quality of democratic representation, and the rise of extreme right politics in the West.