05614. HERBERT MCCLOSKEY "CONSENSUS AND IDEOLOGY IN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM." American Political Review June 1964. An attempt to ascertain if a De Toqueville type consensus exists among political activists and the general public in the U.S. Concluding that there is a high level of cynicism and disbelief expressed by the public and a lesser level expressed by the activists. The paper queries these findings and proposes extra criteria for measuring the same phenomena. 7p. 1 source.