Organizational Behavior of the John Birch Society and Americans for Democratic Action, 1965

This study, conducted in 1965, collected data from 650 members of the John Birch Society, and 769 members of Americans for Democratic Action. Respondents were asked to name the magazines, news columnists, and television news programs that they were most familiar with, and to list all groups they bel...

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Main Author: Grupp, Frederick W. Jr (Author)
Format: Electronic Research Data
Language:English
Published: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] 1984
In:Year: 1984
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Keywords:
Americans for Democratic Action
Cold War
John Birch Society
United States
Associations
communist threat
Conservatism
EDUCATIONAL background
government performance
Liberalism
Mass Media
media influence
memberships
Occupations
Organizational Behavior
Organizational Culture
political affiliation
political interest
Political Participation
Social Behavior
television news
trust in government
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Summary:This study, conducted in 1965, collected data from 650 members of the John Birch Society, and 769 members of Americans for Democratic Action. Respondents were asked to name the magazines, news columnists, and television news programs that they were most familiar with, and to list all groups they belonged to, specifying their position in those groups. In addition, the respondents were queried on needs for improvements in the government. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, income, occupation, and religion. The data were received from the Social Science Data Center at the University of Connecticut.
DOI:10.3886/ICPSR07346.v1