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The American Right Wing The American Right Wing READINGS IN POLITICAL BEHAVIOR Edited by ROBERT A. SCHOENBERGER The University of Michigan HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON, INC. NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO ATLANTA DALLAS MONTREAL TORONTO LONDON SYDNEY Copyright © 1969 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 71-82452 SBN: 03-079335-1 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Preface This collection of essays grew out of a search for empirical and nonpolemical materials on the modern American right wing. Although theory and hypothesis-testing techniques have expanded hugely in recent decades, they have rarely been employed in the study of the attitudes and behavior of ideologues. In the selections that follow, all but two of which were written specifically for this volume, the authors have attempted to combine a serious interest in the sub stance of rightist political characteristics with both a rigorous schol arly distance from the passions that have distorted so many other attempts to deal with these phenomena, and the application of re search and analysis methods that are appropriate to the controversial nature of the topics discussed. v vi PREFACE I am grateful to Morris Janowitz for helpful suggestions; to Herbert J. Addison and Jeanette Ninas Johnson of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., for their editorial help and guidance; to my contributors for making my editorial tasks an unexpected pleasure; and to my wife, Barbara, for the gift of another season of happiness. Robert A. Schoenberger Ann Arbor, Michigan April 1969 Contents Preface v Introduction 1 Part 1 THE EXTREME RIGHT: POLITICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 7 America’s Radical Right: Politics and Ideology 9 Raymond E. Wolfinger, Barbara Kaye Wolfinger, Kenneth Prewitt, Sheilah Rosenhack The Radical Right and the Politics of Consensus 48 Sheilah Koeppen The Political Perspectives of Birch Society Members 83 Fred W. Grupp, Jr. Social Disorganization and Availability: Accounting for Radical Rightism 119 Scott G. McNall vii vîii CONTENTS Pari 2 THE EXTREME RIGHT: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES 141 Psychological Factors in Right-Wing Extremism 143 Alan C. Elms Social Psychological Characteristics of Super-Patriots 164 Mark Chester, Richard Schmuck Social and Psychological Determinants ofR adical Rightism 193 Ira S. Rohter Part 3 THE CONVENTIONAL RIGHT: GOLDWA TER CONSER VA TIVES 239 Conservatism or Extremism: Goldwater Supporters in the 1964 Presidential Election 241 James McEvoy III The Conservative Movement: A View from the East 280 Robert A. Schoenberger Notes on Contributors 299 Index 301 The American Right Wing
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