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Conference on Groups and American Politics

January 16-17, 1987
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Stanford, California

The conference consisted of structured and intensive discussions, using the papers as points of departure.

Survey Research and Membership in Voluntary Associations     by Frank Baumgartner and Jack L. Walker

Groups and Political Behavior: Legitimation, Deprivation, and Competing Values   by by Jack Dennis

Reference Group Influence on Candidate Preference   by Richard Lau

The Political Implications of Gender Group Consciousness   by Arthur Miller, Anne Hildreth, and Grace Simmons

Group consciousness: In Search of a Concept   by Ian Newark Walden

Approaches to the Political Study of Social Groups: Measures of Group Identification and Group Affect   by Pamela Johnston Conover

A Model of Reference Group Influence on Individual Issue Attitudes: The Case of Party Identification   by William G. Jacoby

Assessing the NES Group Consciousness Measures   by Arthur H. Miller

Group Influence, Solidarity and Electoral Outcomes   by Arthur H. Miller, Grace L. Simmons, and Anne Hildreth