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Sources of Support for the Old Right: A Comparison of the John Birch Society and the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Clyde Wilcox
Clyde Wilcox*
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Department of Government at Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057
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During the Reagan years, the New Right has been the focus of a great deal of scholarly attention. Some have studied the secular New Right movement (Crawford, 1980); others have focused on the contributors to New Right organizations (Guth and Green, 1984a, 1984b, and 1986). Some scholars have studied the organizations of the New Right (Latus, 1983); others have examined the processes by which these New Right organizations were formed (Guth, 1983; Liebman, 1983). A good deal of work has focused on the New Christian Right. Some studies have explored the sources of support for the Christian Right in the general population (Buell and Sigelman, 1985; Wilcox, 1987a; Sigelman et al., 1987), and others have examined the activists in Christian Right organizations (Wilcox, 1987b).

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Research Note
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Social Science History , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , Winter 1988 , pp. 429 - 449
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1988 

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