The Sacred and the Subversive: Political Witch-hunts as National Rituals

accusations action activity acts analysis authority boundary central Chapter China collective representations columns Communist constitutional corporate organization countries country's creating creation crime crisis Cultural defining defining the presence discovered dispersion distribution Durkheim economic effect employed explain finding function Government Revenue groups ideas immanent independent variables Index indicator individuals instance institutional areas interests Italy larger Males in Agriculture meaning mentioned military moral multi-party nation-states one-party opposition overall particular party system percent performed period political deviance Political Party political witch-hunts population positive presence provides purges rate of witch-hunting reaffirm referred relationship relative religion religious reports represents ritual role sacred sample score Series social societies specific Spread of Witch-Hunting subversive symbolic taken taking theoretical tion Total number totalitarian trials two-party United University values variable witch-hunting activities Witch-Hunting Index World Tables 1971