The sacred and the subversive: political witch-hunts as national rituals

action analysis bureaucratic capitalist road China coders coding scheme collective decisions collective purposes collective representations Communist control variables Corporate Crime corporate organization countries creation of deviance Cultural Revolution defining the presence Degree of ethno-linguistic deviance between 1950 dispersion of witch-hunting Durkheim Durkheimian E-L Frac East Germany Erikson ethno-linguistic fractionalization function Gov Rev government events defining Government Revenue groups immanent institutional areas lceland lLO Project Series lndependent Variables male workforce actively MaleAg Males in Agriculture McCarthyism modern moral boundaries nation-states number of deviants number of government number of witch-hunting one-party overall rate Percent Males political authorities political deviance Political Party System political subversives political witch-hunts presence of political Project Series 1971 proportional representation purges rate of witch-hunting relationship ritualistic sacred sample social structure Soviet Union Spread of Witch-Hunting symbolic Total number totalitarian two-party two-party systems volume of deviance witch-hunting activities Witch-Hunting lndex workforce actively employed World Tables 1971