TY - JOUR
AU - Herrera, Richard
AB - THE UNDERSTANDING OF IDEOLOGICAL LABELS BY POLITICAL ELITES: A Research Note RICHARD HERRERA Arizona State University of our democratic wrote he missing piece puzzle [of politics],&dquo; t &dquo;is this elite element of the opinion system&dquo; Key, (1961: 536). -A- comment dealt with the state of Key’s thirty years ago public research to the elite in American pertaining political society. opinion While scholars at the time were a bit about the learning quite opinions the same for our of the mass one could not public, say understanding &dquo;thin stratum of referred to as the of the persons variously political the the or the influential&dquo; elite, political activists, leadership echelons, 1961: of the of the elite is Knowledge opinions political (Key 536). essential because their views of answer understanding politics helps the &dquo;fundamental of how it is that democratic question governments to manage operate&dquo; (ibid., 536). Since his offered we have learned a deal Key original insight, good about the attitudes of elites and their behavior et al. (e.g., McClosky Putnam Miller But 1960; McClosky 1964; 1976; and Jennings 1986). remain. for know little about how elites gaps We, instance, remarkably a central element of our traditional discourse - under- grasp 
TI - The Understanding of Ideological Labels by Political Elites: A Research Note
JF - Western Political Quarterly
DO - 10.1177/106591299204500412
DA - 1992-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-understanding-of-ideological-labels-by-political-elites-a-research-9DUiSyZ59Q
SP - 1021
EP - 1035
VL - 45
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -