Barnes (1966) “Ideology and the Organization of Conflict.”
Citation: Barnes, S.H. (1966) “Ideology and the Organization of Conflict: On the Relationship Between Political Thought and Behavior,” The Journal of Politics, 28:3, pp. 513-530.
Barnes (1966:514): Seeks to distinguish between political ideologies and political belief systems, with the former internally consistent and consciously held. Beliefs must “hang together.”
Barnes (1966:519): “it seems likely that mass publics are low in ideological sophistication and largely devoid of genuine constraints in their belief systems stemming from ideological considerations. And it is even more likely that mass publics do not exhibit constraints stemming from commitment to the isms of traditional political thought.”