The Silent Majority: Neither Simple nor Simple-Minded,

Abstract

The thesis of the paper is that it is operationally and philosophically incorrect to look at voters or citizens as members of blocs that move back and forth along a line from left to right, consistent with the constructs of someone else's political philosophy. An implication is that there exists no identifiable ideological 'silent majority' motivated one year by a social or ethnic issue, author year by economic distress, and moving in concert back and forth between political parties or political poles.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0738067

Entities

People

  • R. A. Levine

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Philosophy
  • Political Parties

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Educational Psychology