Attitudes toward free speech in six countries in the mid-1980s

Australia, Austria, Great Britain, Italy, The United States, and West Germany

Bibliographic Data

ID2238024
AuthorsJames A Davis (0000-0001-7978-1652)
Year1990
Volume6
Issue1
Pages1-14
Publication date1990-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036539
OpenAlexW2529253111
LanguageEN
Citations received9

I compare attitudes to Free Speech among adults in Australia, Austria, Britain, Italy, the United States, and West Germany, using 11 items from the ISSP85 data set to test three alternative hypotheses: (1) that the nations do not differ much, (2) they differ consistently so some are more tolerant than others and (3) they differ inconsistently so that nations relatively tolerant on one issue are relatively intolerant on others. The data strongly support Hypothesis (3). On the way, I show that support for the abstract principle of Free Speech predicts tolerance consistently across items and countries

Biology · Demographic economics · Economic history · Economics · Free speech · Political science · Sociology · West germany · Demography · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · History · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social Media and Politics

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