Organizational Behavior of the John Birch Society and Americans for Democratic Action, 1965 (ICPSR 7346)

Published: Feb 16, 1992

Principal Investigator(s):
Frederick W. Jr. Grupp

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07346.v1

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Project Description

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.

Citation

Grupp, Frederick W. Jr. Organizational Behavior of the John Birch Society and Americans for Democratic Action, 1965. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07346.v1

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Subject Terms

Americans for Democratic Action associations Cold War communist threat conservatism educational background government performance John Birch Society liberalism mass media media influence memberships occupations organizational culture organizational behavior political affiliation political interest political participation social behavior television news trust in government United States

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1965

Date of Collection

1965

Data Collection Notes

Variable 2 is a filter for membership in one of the two organizations included in the study.

Methodology

Universe

Members of the John Birch Society and of Americans for Democratic Action.

Data Source

self-enumerated questionnaires

Data Type(s)

survey data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version Date

1992-02-16

Version History

1984-05-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
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