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With Malice Toward Some : How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments (Cambridge Studies in Political Psychology and Public Opinion)
With Malice Toward Some How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments - Cambridge Studies in Political Psychology and Public Opinion Author:George E. Marcus, John L. Sullivan, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Sandra L. Wood 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. People react most strongly to data ab... more »out a group's violations of behavioral norms and the implications for democracy of the group's actions. The authors conclude that democratic citizens should have a strong baseline of tolerance yet be attentive to and thoughtful about current information.« less