Political Tolerance and American DemocracyThis path-breaking book reconceptualizes our understanding of political tolerance as well as of its foundations. Previous studies, the authors contend, overemphasized the role of education in explaining the presence of tolerance, while giving insufficient weight to personality and ideological factors. With an innovative methodology for measuring levels of tolerance more accurately, the authors are able to explain why particular groups are targeted and why tolerance is an inherently political concept. Far from abating, the degree of intolerance in America today is probably as great as it ever was; it is the targets of intolerance that have changed. |
Contents
1 Tolerance and Democracy | 1 |
The Empirical Literature | 26 |
Implications of a Different Approach | 54 |
The Distribution of Target Groups in American Society | 82 |
5 The Social Sources of Politicsl Tolerance | 110 |
6 The Psychological Sources of Political Tolerance | 145 |
Common terms and phrases
abstract principles analysis Anti-abortionists atheists attitudes authoritarian authoritarian personality behavior Black Panthers Chapter citizens civil liberties communists concept consensus conservatism conservative content-controlled democratic theory dogmatism electorate elites empirical epistemic correlations erance factors fascists Federalist Figure findings important indicators individual issues J.S. Mill James Piereson John Birch Society Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan least-liked group left-wing groups levels of tolerance liberal Liberal-Conservative majority McClosky mean scores Mean Tolerance Score measures of tolerance NORC norms of democracy Nunn path coefficients perceived threat Percent Less Tolerant Percent More Tolerant percentage personality political ideology political involvement political tolerance presented Pro-abortionists procedural Protestants Prothro and Grigg psychological security questions regime religion religious right-wing groups sample second least-liked self-esteem self-placement social class social status socialists specific Stouffer items Symbionese Liberation Army Table target group selection targets of intolerance tolerance scale tolerant responses values variables
References to this book
Eliminating Racism: Profiles in Controversy Phyllis A. Katz,Dalmas A. Taylor No preview available - 1988 |
With Malice Toward Some: How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments George E. Marcus Limited preview - 1995 |