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Public Opinion Quarterly 15:715-733 (1951)
© 1951 American Association for Public Opinion Research

Comparative Analysis of Political Ideologies: A Preliminary Statement

DANIEL LERNER, ITHIEL POOL and HAROLD D. LASSWELL

Daniel Lerner, Professor of Sociology, is Research Director of the RADIR Project at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University
Ithiel Pool is Assistant Research Director. Harold D. Lasswell, Professor of Law at Yale University, is senior Consultant

Under what circumstances and to what extent are changes in the locus of political power accompanied by changes in the symbolic vocabulary of ruling groups? By applying statistical techniques to the flow of symbols recorded in the "prestige papers" of France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States over the past half century. the authors found that conditions of war and totalitarianism tend to restrict the range of symbolism, and that the time factor is less related to variety in symbols than is the influence of events.

Dr. Lerner presented an earlier version of this paper to the American Association for Public Opinion Research in June, 1951.


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