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Increasing tolerance or increasingly selective intolerance?
Unformatted Document Text:  Abstract INCREASING TOLERANCE OR INCREASINGLY SELECTIVE INTOLERANCE? 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. Keywords Political tolerance, political intolerance, pluralistic intolerance, target group affect.

Authors: Koos, Agnes.
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Abstract
INCREASING TOLERANCE OR INCREASINGLY SELECTIVE INTOLERANCE?
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.
Keywords
Political tolerance, political intolerance, pluralistic intolerance, target group affect.


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