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Salopek, Phillip A.; Vanderpool, Christopher K. – 1975
Replicating the work of others who hypothesized that status inconsistancy increases political liberalism, this study involved a random sample of rural Michigan population. Utilizing multiple regression analysis, respondents were scored on the variables of occupation, income, education, religion, and political party preference. Hypotheses tested…
Descriptors: Correlation, Education, Hypothesis Testing, Income
Adiseshiah, Malcolm S. – 1968
The inaugural address to the National Seminar of the Indian Adult Education Association, held at Pondicherry, India, December 26, 1968, examines the implications of the mass man, the challenge of violence to democratic living, and the role of education in parliamentary democracy. There is no simple, automatic correlation between education and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility, Democracy
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Saha, Lawrence J. – Sociology of Education, 1976
Far from being divisive, academics with left-wing orientations in Australia appear the most supportive of traditional academic structures and the most successful in integrating the multiple demands of an academic role. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Sociology, Higher Education, Political Affiliation
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Hine, Virginia H. – Educational Horizons, 1978
The paradigm of a future global society may already exist in a nonbureaucratic organization structure called a Segmented Polycephalous Network (SPN). A SPN consists of autonomous segments with horizontal linkages, multiple leaders, and a common ideology. Grass roots movements and multinational corporations are examples. (SJL)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Futures (of Society), Global Approach, Horizontal Organization
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Walker, Thomas G. – Small Group Behavior, 1976
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of varying leader selection systems on the performance of political decision-making groups (judges). The type of leadership choice of the court was the independent variable and degree of dissent the dependent variable. As predicted, merit choice had less dissent. (NG)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Interaction Process Analysis
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Macaluso, Theodore – Public Opinion Quarterly, 1977
Finds little interaction between political information level, strength of party identification, and voting defection (not voting according to the "party line"). Concludes that the decision to defect from party affiliation is largely related to the specific issues in a political campaign. (RL)
Descriptors: Adults, Decision Making, Information Utilization, Knowledge Level
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Thurber, James A.; Rogers, Evan D. – Youth and Society, 1973
Reports a study of the extent to which students participated in the 1970 election campaigns, and why; and of how campaign activism effected the ideology and personality of those who participated; the data are based on mail questionnaire responses from a sample of Washington State University students. (JM)
Descriptors: Activism, Attitude Change, Elections, Individual Characteristics
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Bridges, Edwin M.; Hallianan, Maureen – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1972
Uses voting and interview data to support the argument that political actors, who are responsible for electing or appointing members of a State Board of education, regard the office as one of low salience; and, as a consequence, they engage in political behavior ill-suited to securing highly qualified State board members. (Author/ JH)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elections, Political Affiliation, Qualifications
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iannaccone, Laurence; Wiles, David K. – Education and Urban Society, 1971
Urban politics is shifting from the politics of ethnics to the politics of dispersed inequalities, a pattern which has caused an extreme shift in the base of political support. The power of the educational occupation as a source of patronage and a base of political influence has increased. (DM)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Political Affiliation, Political Attitudes, Political Issues
Petrey, D. Sandy – French Rev, 1969
Descriptors: French Literature, Historical Criticism, Naturalism, Nineteenth Century Literature
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Ebbutt, Keith – Journal of Educational Administration, 1980
Gives a descriptive account of the administration of higher education in the German Democratic Republic, both nationally and institutionally. Shows how power is distributed in this system. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Gomes, Ralph C. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1979
The Guyanese setting, the development of the new coalition of Guyanese elites, their objective interest and nationalist politics, and the social profile of the new elite of Guyana are discussed in this paper. (Author/RLV)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Developing Nations, Essays, Leadership
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Page, James S. – International Review of Education, 2004
Peace education has been recognized as an important aspect of social education for the past three decades. The critical literature as well as official documents, however, have given little attention to its philosophical foundations. This essay explores these foundations in the ethics of (1) virtue, (2) consequentialism, (3) aesthetics, (4)…
Descriptors: Ethics, Peace, Social Studies, Philosophy
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Klein, Daniel B.; Stern, Charlotta – Academic Questions, 2004
During the past 35 years, Seymour Martin Lipset and his collaborators have generated a series of studies and reports on the political alignment in academia. They have all found the social sciences and humanities to be preponderantly Democratic. In the past decade there has been little scholarly inquiry into the political orientation of faculty.…
Descriptors: Political Science, Voting, Political Attitudes, College Faculty
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