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TABLE 9.7a: Mid 1950s: BV8.06 Maintaining Records

 

TABLE 9.7b: Early 1960s: BV8.06 Maintaining Records

 

faithful to party policies and leaders or if it cooperates with the "regular" party organization in election campaigning, propaganda dissemination, and discipline.

Operational Definition. The limitations of our information force us to make rough judgments of the proportion of individuals in each sector involved in the ancillary organizations and to use a simple "low-medium-high" trichotomy for judging party control of these organizations or the activity of the organization on behalf of the party. We assign the highest applicable code from Table 9.8.

TABLE 9.8 Scheme for Coding Pervasiveness of Organization

Party Control/Activity

Penetration into Society

Low
Medium
High

There are no significant socioeconomic organizations in the country, or such organizations exist but are autonomous of the party.

0
0
0

The party is represented by youth (including students) or women's organizations, but these have failed to enlist more than insignificant proportions of their respective sectors.

1
2
3

The party is represented by youth or women's organizations, and these have enlisted significant proportions of their respective sectors.

4
5
6

Some socioeconomic sectors (i.e., one or two of the following: commercial, labor, agrarian, religious, ethnic) are associated to the party through ancillary organizations, but these organizations have enlisted relatively few members of the sectors.

7
8
9

Some socioeconomic sectors are penetrated by ancillary organizations, and they claim relatively many adherents.

10
11
12

Many socioeconomic sectors (i.e., three or more exclusive of youth and women) are penetrated, but the ancillary organizations count relatively few adherents.

13
14
15

Many socioeconomic sectors are penetrated and the ancillary organizations have relatively many adherents.

16
17
18

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