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With Malice toward Some: How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments
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With Malice toward Some: How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments addresses an issue integral to democratic societies: how people faced with a complex variety of considerations decide whether or not to tolerate extremist groups. Relying on several survey-experiments, Marcus, Sullivan, Theiss-Morse, and Wood identify and compare the impact on decision making of contemporary information, long-standing predispositions, and enduring values and beliefs. Citizens react most strongly to information about a group's violations of behavioral norms and information about 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.
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- Authors
- Marcus, G. E., Sullivan, J. L., Theiss-Morse, E., & Wood, S. L.
- Affiliations
- Williams College (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- University of North Texas (US)
- ORCID
- Sullivan, John L.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1995-09-29
- OpenAlex
- W4256544203
- Cited by
- 387
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 10.66
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Keywords
- extremist groups, information effects, threats to democracy, values and beliefs, public opinion, survey experiment
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