Watergate and the 1974 Congressional Elections |
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Authors: | McLEOD, JACK M. BROWN, JANE D. BECKER, LEE B. |
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Affiliation: | the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jane Brown is an Instructor in the Department of Journalism of the University of Michigan the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University The research reported here was supported in part by a grant from the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation. The authors thank Dean Ziemke, Wisconsin, and Professor Donald Shaw, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for assistance in various phases of this project. An earlier version of this ar ticle was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Itasca, Illinois, 1975. |
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Abstract: | Strong, if delayed, public reactions to the Watergate scandalsare documented through examination of Gallup and Harris pollresults. Analysis of panel data (N = 181) collected before,during and after the major Watergate revelations, however, suggestthat beliefs about Nixon's involvement in the scandal had littlerelationship to 1974 political behaviors. Some evidence is providedthat whom or what the voters blamed for the scandal beyond Nixondid influence the 1974 elections to some extent |
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