Entry:

Hagstotz, Werner, "Is there a 'Legitimacy Gap'? Discrepancies Between Government Policies and Public Opinion," Fall, 1984.

Abstract:

Unlike the U.S., one finds potential protestors among West Germans on the issue of increased defense spending, who are highly educated and hold a distrust for politicians. However, in the U.S., one finds the first signs of a development of a homogenous group of potential protestors among a majority of nonwhite persons who voted in 1980 for the maintenance of the social welfare budget, and in doing so felt a discrepancy with white voters and with governmental policy.

1980

Other Data Sets:

ALLBUS 1982