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A RESOLUTION OF THE DIFFEERENCES BETWEEN CONSISTENCY THEORISTS WHO BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE TRY TO MAINTAIN CONGRUENCE IN THEIR POLITICAL THINKING AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE NATURALLY INCONSISTENT IN THEIR POLITICAL THINKING IS ATTEMPTED. STUDIES SNOWING LOW CONSISTENCY ARE GENERALLY TAKEN FROM THE 1950'S AND THOSE WHICH SHOW HIGH CONSISTENCY ARE TAKEN FROM THE 1960'S.

Vita. ; Typescript. ; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. ; Bibliography: leaves 301-309. ; Mode of access: Internet.

USING DATA DROM THE CPS'S 1970 AND 1972 (US) ELECTION SURVEYS, THIS PAPER EMPLOYS MULTIPLE CLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS TO INVESTIGATE THE SOCIAL-STRUCTURAL SOURCES OF POPULAR DIVISION ON THE LAW AND ORDER ISSUE. A MAJOR FINDING IS THE GULF BETWEEN THE RACES. THE ELDERLY, FARMERS, THE LESSER EDUCATED, REPUBLICANS, WHITE SOUTHERNERS, AND FUNDAMENTALIST PROTESTANTS TEND TO BE "HARD-LINERS".

Three strands of theorizing about nonvoting are woven together to determine why noncollege young whites generally, but particularly high school dropouts, manifest precipitous declines in turnout: noncollege young whites have become more socioeconomically marginal, they manifest weakened partisanship, and the political parties have curtailed efforts to mobilize them as voters. (Abstract amended)

Asks if 'know-nothings' still remain a substantial segment of the United States public. Data from the 1984 National Election Study show that nearly 3 in 10 adults cannot pass a test of political information and knowledge, even when grades are severely inflated. Casts serious doubts about the improvability of mass publics. (Abstract amended)

The functional approach to the study of att's is combined with cognitive consistency theory in order to analyze the reaction of the leadership of the John Birch Society, a major US radical rightist "protest" group, to new information which appeared to be inconsistent with the central tenet of its ideology. The argument is advanced that the radical right's belief in an "internat'l Communist conspiracy" may serve functions other than, or in addition to, the ego-defensive function usually noted by scholars. In addition, Robert P. Abelson's model of the modes by which a "belief dilemma" can be resolved is shown to be applicable to the analysis of cognitive modification within a pol'al ideology. IPSA.