num_pages: 308
description: 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 about 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.
language: English
title: With Malice toward Some: How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments
titlecomplete: With Malice toward Some: How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)
genres: Politics, Political Science
ratings_count: 12
series: Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
publisher: Cambridge University Press