The Effect of Education on Ideological Consistency |
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| Authors: | Bishop George F |
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| Institution: | George F. Bishop is a Faculty Research Associate in the Behavioral Sciences Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati. This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Itasca, Illinois, May 1975. The research was supported, in part, by a Biomedical Science Support Grant to the author from the University of Notre Dame. The author wishes to thank Howard Reiter, David Repass, and Carl Sterling for their helpful comments. |
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| Abstract: | Using data from the 1964, 1968, and 1972 American national electionstudies, this report raises serious questions about the validityof the "salience-of-politics" hypothesis that has been invokedto account for the dramatic growth of mass ideological consistencysince the late 1950s. A reconceptualization of the consistencyconstruct along liberal-conservative lines and a more refinedanalysis of the effect of education suggests that the risinglevel of educational attainment in the mass public may be themajor factor explaining long-term trends in the structure ofAmerican political ideology. |
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