Red Scare? Revisiting Joe McCarthy's Influence on 1950s Elections

In the early 1950s, politicians apparently allowed themselves to be spectators to the anticommunist witch hunt of Senator Joe McCarthy and his supporters, leading to a particularly grim chapter in American politics. In part, they did so because they thought the public supported McCarthy. Although po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lenz, G. S., Berinsky, Adam
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106192
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7827-9396