U.S. They have stated that, while they feel sympathy for the upset which has driven their
colleagues to engage in threats of violence, they do not condone such illegal acts.
Following receipt of these instructions, each respondent was asked to make the same eight
tolerance judgments with respect to this new class of suspect. These tolerance judgments
were coded as Rejection of Terror Tactics = 1. Tolerance judgments rendered in
contemplation of suspects directly responsible for the hypothetical terror threat received a
coding of Rejection of Terror Tactics = 0.
IV.
Model Specifications
In order to examine to effects of the independent variables listed above upon the
tolerance decisions of the survey respondents encountering terror threat information, the
following regression model will be estimated as model one:
Y
Political Tolerance Index
= B
0
+ B
1
X
LibCon
+ B
2
X
Standing Democratic Norms
+B
3
X
Standing Tolerance
+ B
4
X
Political
Interest
+ B
5
X
Specific Threat
+ B
6
X
Civil Liberties Support
+ B
7
X
American Origin Statement
+ B
8
X
Rejection of Terror Tactics
+
u
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