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| 1. Koos, Agnes. "Increasing tolerance or increasingly selective intolerance?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Fairmont Hotel, Mar 23, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-12-04 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p89008_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: According to GSS, Americans showed a slightly decreasing tendency to deny the
political rights of five target groups during 1976-1998. Although practically we cannot
distinguish between a society in which people exercise tolerance because they are maximally
committed to civil liberties (are “absolute tolerant”), and a society in which no one hates
anybody to the extent of limiting their rights, for theory and predictions it makes sense to test
whether tolerance is a multivalent personality trait, or is situational and group-related (possibly
bringing about “pluralistic intolerance”). In a half-confirmatory and half-exploratory research, I
replicated Mondak and Sanders’s (2003) finding with the joint 1998 and 2000 GSS data. The
proportion of “absolute tolerants” is 21.23%, but the interpretation of this fact remains open to
discussion. First, there is a social desirability effect at work, and second, the “pluralistic
intolerance” hypothesis has also received support. |
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| 2. Evans, Mariah. and Toth, Katalin. "Does the Welfare State Increase Tolerance of Homosexuality? A Multilevel Model of International Differences" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-12-04 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p239171_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Prior research has clearly documented individual level differences in attitudes towards homosexuality and, net of those, some international differences. But the work on international differences has remained exploratory – examining country by country differences in attitudes rather than measuring country differences as variables and assessing the magnitude of their impact. This paper takes some steps towards a more systematic approach by examining whether tolerance of homosexuality is significantly higher among citizens of welfare states than among their peers in market societies, net of social composition. Our key hypothesis is the "penumbra" of the welfare state – that the essential premise of the welfare state – that individuals cannot be held responsible for their economic situation and so risk sharing and social responsibility is called for – diffuses into other attitudes and value domains. The particular case we investigate here is attitudes towards homosexuality and the basic argument is that citizens of welfare states will generally be more tolerant of homosexuality, because of a kind of cultural habit of inclusiveness and because they will be more likely to think that homosexuals are not responsible for their behavior. |
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