Conference on Groups and American Politics

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California

January 16-17, 1987

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 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