Abstract Politicians frequently use political speech to foster hostility toward immigrants, a strategy that shapes preferences and behavior feeds the success of populist right. Whether can be used tolerance however, remains unexplored. We identify three mechanisms by which could increase tolerance: (1) stressing in-group conceptions highlight commonalities with immigrants; (2) emphasizing inclu...

Advanced industrialized democracies have seen an increase in the ethnic and racial diversity of their populations, and the impact of this diversity for democratic politics has received increasing attention. In this paper, I examine the impact of increasing social diversity on young people's attitudes about speech rights in two countries: Canada and Belgium. In particular, this paper will examin...

Teacher-education students attending a state university in the Southeastern United States responded to measures of Christian conservatism (theological fundamentalism and political evangelicalism) and sociopolitical values (e.g., nationalism, internationalism, patriotism, respect for civil liberties, and tolerance of dissent). Most of the measures demonstrated adequate internal consistency. Alth...

tolerance is among the issues about which very little experimental research has been conducted in the iranian society. in this study, based on a sample of 335 students, the relationship between degrees and types of religiosity with social tolerance has been examined. the results show that the more religious a person is, the less tolerance they show towards sexual issues, crime and relationship ...

How do online social networks affect political tolerance in the highly polarized climate of post-coup Egypt? Taking advantage of the real-time networked structure of Twitter data, we find that greater network diversity is not only associated with lower levels of intolerance, but that spending an additional year in a diverse network results in a significant decrease in the use of intolerant rhet...

Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...