Psychological Correlates of Urban Political Alienation

NOTE: An earlier version of this paper was presented to the 1969 meeting of the Western Political Science Association. The simulation experiment was conducted at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania. The survey was conducted for Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia. I am indebted to Susanne DiVincenzo and Peter Shubs for their assistance in conducting this research, to Libby J. Goldstein for her encouragement and assistance in the conduct of the survey, and to Dr. James Becker of RBS, Inc., for permission to use the survey data.

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