EU Policy on Equality between Homo- and Heterosexuals and Citizens’ Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in 26 EU Member States and Turkey

Gerhards, Jürgen

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2144668

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“…(1993: 137) ‘the most important factor affecting [political] intolerance appears to be religious traditionalism, a diagnosis also made by other writers’. Based on Gerhards (2007: 14) we assume this individual level influence ‘regardless of the particular denomination’. Social involvement or integration in the broader society (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Crafting tolerance: the role of political institutions in a comparative perspective

Kirchner

Freitag

Rapp

2011

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Ongoing changes in social structures, orientation, and value systems confront us with the growing necessity to address and understand transforming patterns of tolerance as well as specific aspects, such as social tolerance. Based on hierarchical analyses of the latest World Values Survey (2005-08) and national statistics for 28 countries, we assess both individual and contextual aspects that influence an individual's perception of different social groupings. Using a social tolerance index that captures personal attitudes toward these groupings, we present an institutional theory of social tolerance. Our results show that specific institutional qualities, which reduce status anxiety, such as inclusiveness, universality, and fairness, prevail over traditional socio-economic, societal, cultural, and democratic explanations.

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confidence: 99%