Litteratur |
Anti-intellectualism In American Life. / : Richard
Hofstadter.
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.
- https://archive.org/details/antiintellectual000187mbp
The Paranoid Style of American Policy. / : Richard
Hofstadter. Harper's Magazine, November 1964.
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http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
'It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered
it—and its targets have ranged from “the international
bankers” to Masons, Jesuits, and munitions makers.'
Using Expectancy Effects Theory To Analyze the Groups Who Supported
Senator McCarthy.
- https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED296382
'In this essay, Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory (which
seeks to explain how individuals try to reconcile holding two
inconsistent beliefs at the same time) is used to explore the
nature of expectancy effects and what possible roles they play in
the thinking of the radical right. The paper first defines
expectancy effects and explains how they work by discussing three
variables in the expectancy process: senders' disposition,
reinforcement, and correspondence bias. The theory of expectancy
effects is then used in the paper to examine three of the groups
who supported Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s to show that
even though the beliefs that each group holds may be false, when
each group looks for ways to resolve this tension between beliefs,
they create an additional false predisposition. The groups are the
pseudo-conservatives (so-called by Richard Hofstadter), certain
ethnic groups, and small businessmen. Next, the paper examines how
the rest of the expectancy process works with the radical right.
The paper concludes that expectancy effects are a useful tool for
explaining the implications of the tension reducing strategies
described by Festinger.'