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Towards the Development of a Canadian-American Scale: A Research Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

Dallas Cullen ,
J. D. Jobson  and
Rodney Schneck
Dallas Cullen
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
J. D. Jobson
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Rodney Schneck
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
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To many Canadians anti-Americanism is not only as old as Canada itself, but it also seems to have been and still is an integral part of the entire Canadian experience. To the historian Baker, anti-Americanism is a recurring theme in Canadian history and exists today as it did a century ago. However, anti-Americanism, to the best knowledge of the authors, has not been investigated through systematic behavioural empirical research. The development of a scale to measure anti-American attitudes is a necessary step in the empirical investigation of Canadian anti-Americanism. The purpose of this research note is to present some data that contribute to the empirical development of a measure of Canadian attitudes towards Americans which may be used as an anti-American scale.

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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 1978 , pp. 409 - 418
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1978

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3 These data were collected in the spring of 1972 (that is, pre-Watergate); we appreciate the help of Robert Palkowski in the data collection.

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5 This is not a reflection of bias in the original pool, since only about one-third of the original 96 items dealt with issues of morality.

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