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rightist parties likejansangh; (4) Farmers, clerks and labourers are poles apart from businessmen in their party preferences; (5) Labourers and clerks evince a stong preference for the leftist parties like CPI (M), CPI and SSP.
(This survey is part of a study on "Political Parlies and I he People" undertaken by the Institute of Behavioural Sciences^ Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya.) ^
1 (a) M Weiner, Party Politics in India: The Development of a Multi-party System, Pri-nceton 1957, p 127.
(b) D N Brown, "Traditional Concept of Indian Leadership", R L and I Tinker (Eds), Leadership and Political Institution in India, Oxford 1959, pp 3-17.
(c) B R Kumar, "Is Party System Suitable for India?" Swarajya, Madras, 25 November, 1961, p 11.
(d) M Weiner, The Politics of Scarcity, Bombay, 1963, p 39.
(e) M Duverger, Political Parties: Their Organization and Activity in Modern State, London 1964. p 290.
(f) W H M Jones, The Government and Politics of India, London 1964, p 165.
(g) J PNarain, "The Organic Democracy" in S P Aiyar and R Srmivasan (Eds),
Studies in Indian Democracy, Bombay 1965, pp 325-344.
(h) H Hartmann, Political Parties in India, Delhi 1971. pp 41-117.
2 J P Guildford, Fundamental Statistics in Psychology and Education, New York 1956, p 159. 8 S N Singh, Scale in Hindi for Measurement of Attitude toward Political Parties, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya 1972.
4 R Likert, ^'A New Technique for the Measurement of Attitude" Archives of P^hycho' logy. No 140, 1932.
5 H H Hyman Political Socialisation, Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois 1959.
6 R D Hess and J V Tonney, "The Development of Basic Attitudes and Values toward Government and Citizenship during the Elementary School Years5', Part I, University of Chicago 1965.
7 Documents adopted by Eighth Congre^ of the CPI at Patna, 7-12 February 1968, p 315.
8 H H Hyman and P B Sheatsley, "The Current Status of American Public Opinion," D Katz, D Cartwright, S Elderveld, and AM Lee (Eds), Public Opinion and Propaganda, -New York 1951-, p 36.
