With Malice Toward Some

List of contents

Preface: Political tolerance and democratic life; Part I. Theoretical Background and Overview: 1. Political tolerance and democratic practice; 2. Antecedent considerations and contemporary information; 3. Thinking and mood; Part II. Contemporary Information and Political Tolerance Judgments: 4. Tolerance judgments and contemporary information - the basic studies; Appendix 4A. The basic experiments - manipulation checks; Part III. Refining the Model - The Role of Antecedent Conserations as Individual Differences: 5. Threat and political tolerance; 6. Democratic values as standing decisions and contemporary information; 7. Source credibility, political knowledge and animus in making tolerance judgments - the Texas experiment; 8. Individual differences: The influence of personality; Part IV. Implications and Conclusions: 9. Intensity, motivations, and behavioral intentions; 10. Human nature and political tolerance; Appendices; Bibliography.

Summary

How do citizens faced with a complex variety of considerations decide whether or not to tolerate extremist groups? Relying on several survey-experiments, the authors identify and compare the impact on decision making of contemporary information, long-standing predispositions, and enduring values and beliefs.

Product details

• Authors: George E. Marcus, John L. Sullivan, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse
• Assisted by: Dennis Chong (Editor), James H. Kuklinski (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2015
• EAN: 9780521433969
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43396-9
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 650 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Political
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education