Measuring Support For the Political System: A Study of Student Disaffection
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Authors
Wasner, Guenter H.
Issue Date
1970
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The image of the college student as a radical and
militant ready to man the barricades against the established
order, has almost become as accepted part of the
American mind. Countless protests and demonstrations
viewed on the evening news or read in the morning paper,
have brought the issue of student dissent to every
supper table. Indeed, throughout the last decade, student
dissent has emerged as one of the most visible and intensive
inputs extended toward the American political
system.
Whether such inputs aid the successful functioning
of the system or threaten it, has been a topic of much
discussion among politicians and journalists alike, with
the verdict generally being a function of the predictor's
political sympathies and little else. Little has been
done however, to empirically study both the degree and
extent of student disaffection and its potential effect
on the behavior and survival of the political system.
This study is an attempt at providing some insights into
that question. To do so, it will deal with two basic
questions. First, we must answer how we in fact go
about measuring the degree and extent of student disaffection
from the system, and secondly, what thus can
we say about its effect on the future behavior and survival
of this system.
Of course, any attempt to study the full extent
of student dissent across the United States would take
abilities and resources beyond this writer's. This
study will content itself with examining a limited
student population, the student body of Kalamazoo College,
Kalamazoo, Mich. Hopefully the measures and indeces
developed as well as some of the attitudinal patterns
discerned will also provide some insight into the wider
population.
If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this SIP.
If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this SIP.
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vi, 75 p.
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