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Merola, Linda. "A Culture of Crisis: Information, Public Opinion and the Scope of American Civil Liberties in the Era of Terrorist Threat" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41606_index.html>

Merola, L. M. , 2005-09-01 "A Culture of Crisis: Information, Public Opinion and the Scope of American Civil Liberties in the Era of Terrorist Threat" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41606_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The functioning of American democracy requires that citizens of highly disparate perspectives be equal in their rights. For this reason, Americans ideally practice political tolerance -- or the willingness to allow the exercise of such rights as freedom of speech, association, and demonstration -- even when confronted with individuals or groups espousing ideas that are upsetting or repellant to their own views. Despite high levels of citizen support for political tolerance in the abstract, however, previous scholars have found Americans to be much less supportive of extensions of rights as applied to specific groups. In the 1995 book, With Malice Toward Some, one group of scholars innovated with respect to the study of political tolerance through an emphasis on the effect of information on citizen support for political tolerance. Previous literature had focused instead upon long-term individual predispositions in order to explain tolerant decisions. This project extends the study of the interaction between information and citizen willingness to allow unpopular groups to exercise certain fundamental American rights. Indeed, following September 11, 2001, the American public has been subjected to an almost continuous stream of threatening information with respect to terrorism. Yet, relatively few researchers have examined the effect of such exposure upon Americans' support for civil liberties in a quantitative or experimental manner. In addition, this project extends the prior research through a focus upon previously ignored categories of civil liberties, namely protections against unlawful search and seizure, against self-incrimination, the right to representation by counsel and the right to a speedy trial. It is with respect to these rights that the greatest possible erosion in citizen support for democratic principles exists, as support for the extension of these rights to members of unpopular groups is often lower even absent national crisis. In adhering to the trend of current research, an experimental survey methodology will be utilized in two phases. The first phase consists of a pre-test, measuring initial levels of support for general commitment to abstract democratic principles. Phase two consists of a post-test in which experimental stimuli are introduced to sub-groups of the original sample, testing their willingness to extend legal protections to a defendant or suspect who may violate accepted behavioral norms or support terrorist causes.

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