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Harell, Allison. "Tolerance Judgments in Multicultural Democracies: Target Groups and the Role of Social Diversity" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-27 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209670_index.html>

Harell, A. R. , 2007-08-30 "Tolerance Judgments in Multicultural Democracies: Target Groups and the Role of Social Diversity" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2009-05-27 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209670_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Studies of political tolerance usually focus on what makes citizens willing to extend basic civil liberties to groups they find objectionable. Protecting this diversity of opinions is often considered key to a healthy democracy. Though the literature on political tolerance considers this value absolute, many advanced industrialized democracies ostensibly recognize that the expression of exclusionary speech (i.e. hate speech or holocaust denial) is counter to the multicultural demands of contemporary democracies. In this paper, I will examine how exposure to social diversity impacts attitudes towards exclusionary speech. Whereas the literature on political tolerance currently ignores the role that different types of target groups can play, I will present evidence that individuals are in fact less likely to tolerate the expression of exclusionary speech, even after controlling for the degree of objection, compared to other controversial speech. I will then test the hypothesis that as young people are increasingly exposed to social diversity, they will become more tolerant generally, except in the case of exclusionary speech. This differential impact is key to my argument that target groups matter and that they matter in ways that make sense in contemporary, multicultural democracies. Drawing on the insights of the contact hypothesis in social psychology, I argue that the reason exposure to social diversity decreases support for the public expression of exclusionary speech is because it increases empathy with the victims of such speech. The analysis for this project will come from a unique comparative youth dataset collected in Belgium and Canada that provides close to 10,000 respondents between the ages of 15 and 18. The dataset includes a political tolerance battery that I specifically designed for this analysis and detailed questions about the types of social diversity that each respondent has within their social networks.

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