[Add] Content-controlled measure of political tolerance

[JamesPHoughton]

Survey Title

A content-controlled measure of political tolerance

Survey Source

• Sullivan, John L., James Piereson, and George E. Marcus. 1982. Political Tolerance and American Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (https://archive.org/details/politicaltoleran00john)

Used in

• Mutz, Diana C. 2002. “Cross-Cutting Social Networks: Testing Democratic Theory in Practice.” The American Political Science Review 96 (1): 111–26.

  Political tolerance was measured using Sullivan Piereson and Marcus’s (1982) content-controlled method whereby respondents first volunteer their “least-liked” group and are then asked a series of six questions about extending civil liberties to these partic- ular groups, including the extent to which they should be banned or outlawed, be allowed to hold rallies in their city, be allowed to teach in public schools, and be subject to government phone tapping

Tolerance. Average of responses to six questions asked with respect to the group named by the respondent. “I’m going to read you a list of groups in politics. As I read it please follow along and think about which of these groups you like the least. If there is some other group you like even less than the groups I read, please tell me the name of that group. Communists, white supremacists, homosexu- als, militia groups, abortion rights activists, pro-life activists, neo-Nazis, religious fundamentalists, atheists, the Ku Klux Klan, and feminists. Which of these groups do you like the least, or is there some other group you like even less?” All items were answered on a 4-point agree–disagree scale: [Named group] should be banned from being president of the United States/should be outlawed/should be allowed to make a speech in your town/city./should be allowed to hold public rallies in your town/city./should be allowed to teach in the public schools./should have their phones tapped by our government.

Survey Overview

Notes

We could also run this survey with prespecified outgroups.

Tasks

• Create a new folder in surveys/src/surveys w/ descriptive, easy-to-read name superSpecialSurvey/
• Create SurveyJS .json file (e.g. superSpecialSurvey/superSpecialSurvey.json)
• Create a .bib file citing your references for the survey (always: references.bib)
• Create a storybook markdown file to document (e.g. superSpecialSurvey.stories.mdx)
  • Survey purpose
  • Expected behavior
  • Design rationale
  • APA-style bibliography
• Create file with function to aggregate survey data (e.g. superSpecialSurvey.score.js)
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