Affect for Government and Its Relation to Policy Output among Adolescents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232270 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberta S Sigel, Marilyn Hoskin, Marilyn Brookes Hoskin |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111 |
| Publication date | 1977-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2110451 |
| OpenAlex | W2322772055 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 5 |
Generalized political affect for the nation and its symbols has usually been shown to be an enduring characteristic among all segments of the population, and especially among young people. In the group of adolescents who experienced the successive disturbances and policy failures of the 1960's and early 1970's, however, positive affect is less obvious. Not only student regard for incumbent office holders, but also their respect for permanent institutions of government and even the nation itself appears to have fallen as their continued dissatisfaction with governmental output has increased. Measuring affect for various objects of government by the Michigan Feeling Thermometer, policy dissatisfaction is shown to be empirically related to a lessening of political affect for all political objects. Watergate as a specific instance of policy failure proves to have little convincing relation to generalized affect, but discontent with governmental provision of services and protection of rights is monotonically related to a lower level of support for government. What emerges is an apparent ambiguity in the notion of political affect which requires refinement into more flexible measures for different dimensions of attachment to national political institutions and symbols
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2015 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |